Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later State police calmed the terrified city by cutting off parcel-post service, arrested one unidentified suspect for what appeared to be a disastrous follow-up to the bitter fight three years ago between the defunct anthracite union and its more powerful conqueror, United Mine Workers of America...
Realizing that whatever else he may be, Fisticuffer Joe Louis is certainly not Aryan, the potent Nazi Reichssportblatt (Reich Sport Paper) suddenly demanded last week that the prize fight between the U. S. Negro and German Max Schmeling, scheduled for New York City in June, be stringently boycotted by Nazi fight fans. In an essay titled, "Is That Necessary?" Nazi Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten wrote: "We cannot feel much enthusiasm for the plan to arrange an excursion to the Max Schmeling-Joe Louis boxing match. Although such a trip in itself might be agreeable, it would suit...
...said last week: "I have always considered General Cárdenas a just, honest and sound man but the moods of Cárdenas change from day to day. If there is anything that can save Mexico now, it is for labor and the middle classes to organize and fight Communism. . . . But right now Mexico is a boiling caldron of dissatisfaction. I blame Cárdenas for my exile. I will spend the remainder of my life resting. I hope to find peace in California. . . . I had nothing to do with the bombing of the Vera Cruz train...
With nothing left of the $5,000 she says she received from Federal agents for putting the late Desperado John Dillinger on the spot, buxom Mrs. Anna Sage, "The Woman in Red," abandoned her long fight to escape deportation for operating a disorderly house in Gary, Ind. Next week she will be shipped back to her native Rumania. Remaining in the U. S. are Husband Alexander Sage and Son Steve...
...took several handlers to push him into the ring. There was a quick and ugly knockout and variorum reports of what happened to Promoter Dickson, who was supposed to have been hit on the head with a wine bottle. He discharged his matchmaker, packed the house for his next fight by giving free tickets wholesale to Citroen mechanics. Thus began the Golden Age of French boxing...