Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hillman, Mr. Addes agreed to step aside if they would publicly indicate another choice. Loath to convict themselves of "dictatorship," Murray & Hillman at last pointed to amiable, amenable Provisional President Thomas, whom they had upped from a vice-presidency after Homer Martin seceded. Result: fewer dogs were left to fight over the bones...
...Britain to change, in one short week she turned her back on a longestablished policy of no military commitments in Europe east of the Rhine-turned, whole-elephant, and guaranteed that the British Fleet, along with the French Army (and the combined Air Forces of the two nations) would fight to protect the States of Eastern Europe from further Nazi aggression...
...hrer Hitler and his Nazis remain in power long without their foreign "diversion"? 2) When the Führer threatens invasion is he bluffing or prepared to wage war? Another question was virtually settled in the affirmative: If war does come, Germany will again have to fight both on eastern and western fronts...
...care what sentence I get," said Prisoner Peter Stuart in the dock of a London court last week, "because the fight will go on." Peter got 15 years. Michael Joseph Mason got 17. Seven of their friends got 59½ among them. Their crime: being good soldiers of the Irish Republican Army-i.e., bomb-planters...
...traffic was detoured. pending an examination, officials hesitated to jump to the conclusion that "the fight" was going on so soon after the trial. But next day there was no doubt left. In Fleet Street, centre of London's newspaper offices, the presses were grinding out morning editions. Suddenly came a bomb's heavy thud. Part of the News-Chronicle office crumbled. No one was hurt but. when the presses were stopped, it was discovered that one story they had been running off was a gloating little piece about Michael Joseph Mason's 17-year sentence, Peter...