Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world. We have never had racketeers or gangsters here; we have not had a kidnaping for ransom since the turn of the century; sex crimes of violence are lower per capita of population than any city of comparable size in the U. S.; bunco-men and pickpockets fight shy of San Francisco; robberies and burglaries are constantly decreasing; in short, no less an authority than Director J. Edgar Hoover has described San Francisco as the "white spot of the nation," so far as crime is concerned...
Year ago Franklin Roosevelt's plan for reorganizing the U. S. Government was beaten in a bitter legislative battle amid cries of "Dictator!" from Father Coughlin and Publisher Frank Gannett. Last week another reorganization bill passed-with no national hullabaloo, but after a right smart fight in Congress...
...Bill. Husky, leathery Lindsay Carter Warren, Congressman from Washington, N. C., more than half won the fight by the way he drafted this year's bill. He listed the points on which last year's bill was attacked and simply left most of them out this time. He gave the President power to alter the setup of all executive agencies-except certain ones, specifically listed. (Important exceptions in the bill as passed by the Senate: Civil Service, Communications, Power, Trade, Interstate Commerce, Securities & Exchange, Employes' Compensation, Maritime, Tariff Commissions, Army Engineers Corps, Coast Guard, NLRB, Board...
Putting up a hard but losing fight, the Crimson malletmen bowed to West Point, 14 to 9 in the Squadron a Armory, New York, Last night. The victory places the soldiers in the final rounds of the National Intercollegiate Indoor polo championship...
Activity along the House athletic front has been resumed with the crews conditioning for the spring competition. Eliot, defending champion, is again favored to capture top honors, but a close fight is expected among the other Houses for valuable points in the Straus Trophy race...