Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power to establish such military rule, under his own discretion, was sustained in the lower courts and was never properly fought out through the higher courts. Labor was, of course, opposed to this semi-Fascist arrangement, but for various reasons did not make, by any means, the vigorous fight that should have been made...
Behind flights, arrests, rumors, was the fight of the Falange and the Army, a conflict older than the peace. During the war, General Franco merged 3,000,000 Falangists-extreme Fascists-and 800,000 Carlists-conservative monarchists-into the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista de los Jons, a top-heavy Fascist party modeled on those of Italy and Germany. Reorganized, cleaned out, it had 1,700,000 rank & file members and 20,000 "militant members" made up of Generalissimo Franco's general staff, commissioned and non-commissioned officers in his Army, hand-picked pro-Franco members of the Falange...
...Wendell Willkie showed every sign of feeling just about as much defeated as a grizzly bear on a rampage. Willkie is one of the few businessmen who, after trading punches with the New Deal, appeared to have as much fight left in him as his New Deal opponent. Fortnight ago when it gave the round to Lilienthal by authorizing an issue of bonds for the purchase of Tennessee Electric Power.* Congress-in much the same truculent mood as last week-carefully earmarked the money in the bill, thus ending the days of blank checks for TVA. Moreover, in announcing...
...effectiveness of his fight is shown by two facts: 1) that Congress is now highly critical of TVA and similar projects-and the whole yardstick idea has taken a political beating, 2) that Wendell Willkie (a lifelong Indiana Democrat) is today the only businessman in the U. S. who is ever mentioned as a Presidential possibility...
This "possibility" is at present mildly fantastic, but obviously Wendell Willkie is still going places. Into Willkie's office come 500 letters weekly, all urging him to keep up the fight, many predicting that it will wind up with him in the White House. On these Wendell Willkie casts an interested' but realistic eye. Stamped with anti-New Deal mark, he is still too much of a liberal to suit old-line Republicans. When friends ask him whether he intends to be a candidate he answers, "Wouldn't I be a sucker...