Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill permitting interstate shipment of fight films, sent it to conference...
...with the British on whatever measures were agreed upon. But at week's end the British, involved up to their necks in building up a "Peace Front" to resist Adolf Hitler's aggressions in Europe, took no measures at all. The British felt that they could not fight the Japanese economically without U. S. aid, and last week the U. S. State Department kept noticeably quiet...
...British-owned China Printing & Finishing Co., a cotton mill where Chinese workers last week were on strike. Guarding the plant while Chinese workers looked on was 45-year-old Briton R. M. Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested, but Japanese marines batted him over the skull with a gun-butt. What happened next is not clear. Japanese claimed Tinkler threatened them with a revolver, observed that "he came into...
...years of marriage he is a father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with proved cinema practice, however, mother and son rally around after pop has had his ears pinned back, seem resigned to living happily with him ever after...
...Corey with five goals was the chief reason for the Eli victory Saturday, but Gay Dillingham's three markers kept Harvard in the thick of the fight most...