Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House's week was enlivened by a fight in the California delegation. Democrat Alfred J. Elliott received by mistake a check for $100 made out to Republican Bertrand W. ("Bud") Gearhart by a Mrs. Gertrude Achilles of Morgan Hill, Calif., urging passage of a bill to create John Muir-Kings Canyon National Park. Mr. Elliott had the check photostatted, sent it back to California for remailing, set the FBI to watch for its cashing, and told people to watch him catch Bud Gearhart taking a bribe. When he got the check, Bud Gearhart returned it to Mrs. Achilles honestly...
...agreement. This would guarantee that for the next two years only Lewis miners could get jobs in most coal mines. The operators refused. Miner Lewis then asked them to waive a clause in the old contract, which in effect forbade his men to strike, thus freeing him to fight A. F. of L. encroachment by making it costly for the employers. The operators refused. He then offered to keep his men at work under a temporary extension of their old agreement, pending further talk about his demands. The operators refused, insisted upon a two-year renewal of their old agreement...
...angry members of the Apted force get a thorough dousing yesterday evening when they attempted to separate a group of 95 students engaged in a water fight on the top of Winthrop House...
...fight began when several Juniors tired out by long divisional exams, began throwing water and trash from window to window and over the Puritan roof. Soon a large crowd of students was involved...
...that eats her farrow") 35 years ago and went to Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary, to live by "silence, exile and cunning." In Trieste his children were born. In 1915 Joyce was so busy with Ulysses that he scarcely noticed that Italy and Austria were about to fight until frontiers began to close. A Greek friend (Joyce is superstitious about Greeks, believes that they bring him luck, that nuns do not) got him permission to leave through Italy. Along the frontier, each time he passed a station, it was dynamited behind...