Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference fight with the Senate to limit to $61,500,000 (instead of $100,000,000) the new bond issues authorized for TVA to buy private utility properties. The House gave up a provision restricting TVA's operations to the Tennessee River's watershed, but achieved the same limitation for the time being by earmarking all the new money for specific purchases, thus requiring TVA to apply to Congress again before starting any more projects. The bill went to the President...
...deportation proceedings were started against him, last April. Because in the Strecker case, for which this case was delayed, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that temporary Communism, since discontinued, is not a deportable offense (TIME, April 24). Running the Bridges defense was a lady veteran of the Strecker fight, and of a lot of other celebrated "liberal" cases, notably those of Angelo Herndon, the Scottsboro Boys and John Strachey. She was Carol Weiss King, 44, a short, swart, athletic Manhattan widow with bushy black eyebrows and thick eyeglasses, a specialist in labor and radical defense work, particularly alien deportations...
Power Politics. Should Congress shut up shop and go home without passing any new neutrality legislation this summer, the previous legislation-minus "cash & carry"-will still stand. If the fight over neutrality laws is too long and too futile, a growing disgust may lead Congress and the people to wash their hands of the whole business and fall back on old-fashioned international...
...special neutrality is a basic disinclination to commit mass murder and be its victim. But there can be no guarantee of neutrality in any words, whether of mandatory legislation or of traditional international law. Real neutrality exists in the hearts of men-and if men take sides they may fight...
...Outer Mongolia. Some day, the Japanese tell them, there will be an independent Mongol confederation and the princes dispossessed by revolution will regain their land and power. In return, when the time comes for war with Russia, they are expected to lead a counterrevolution in Outer Mongolia and help fight...