Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verbal slugging, scrambling and hell-raising, most people forgot that the entire House situation was only shadowboxing, since the Senate could not and would not even begin action on wage-hour legislation at this session. But the intensity of the fight revealed more clearly than ever the New Deal's slipping grip on Capitol Hill...
Last week Federal District Judge James McPherson Proctor upheld the A. M. A.'s demurrer and tore up the indictment, which he called "a highly colored, argumentative discourse . . . abounding in uncertain statements." Thurman Arnold's boss, Attorney General Murphy, immediately announced that he would continue the fight "on different issues," in the Circuit and Supreme Courts. Warned the Department of Justice: "The Government's prosecution policy toward boycotts in the medical profession is unchanged...
...business for 37 years and he just takes pictures. His judgment of distance is so good that he can pick out an object yards away and estimate its size and distance within a fraction of an inch. On an assignment he shows swimmers how to swim, prizefighters how to fight, baseball players how to run bases. When Dottie Dee (now of Sally Rand's ranch) described how she put on gold paint for her dance, Smitty said she did that wrong...
...third year in succession he has a major surplus to fight. Last year wheat was the most acute headache, year before it was cotton, this year corn. This week he had to face the music. On August 1 came due the loans of 57? a bushel which he made to farmers who put under seal part of their last year's crop...
Novelist Blake likes stormy scenes. Cimactic chorus at a family fight: "One mezzo, one dramatic soprano, one lyric soprano, one croak (stork), one croak (raven), one tenor, one baritone, two basses, one refrain-money." Even the paintings in an art gallery quarrel. But the storm clouds lift often enough to reveal a memorable series of landscapes-Langue-doc's fertile vineyards, the endless suburbs of Paris, Arles in its lingering Roman splendor...