Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Choose! If you offer us peace you will find generous Spanish hearts. If you continue to make war against us and against yourselves you will meet opposition worthy of the mettle of our combatants, strong and implacable as the steel of our bayonets. Either peace for Spain or a fight to the death! We are ready for either. We are independent and free Spaniards. We have not on our conscience the responsibility for the destruction of our country...
Anxious to extend the original subways, the city found soon after the turn of the century that it could do so only on the I. R. T.'s and B. R. T.'s terms, since no bankers would fight their monopoly. After five years of dickering I. R. T.'s then President Theodore P. Shonts put on a great show of letting the city get the better side of the bargain. A man of wit, he remarked: "I was fairly well dressed when I went into that room, but they've taken away everything...
Jimmy Grunig '42 put up a good fight but Charley Curtis '42 came through the victor in the unlimited class as he pounded his opponent at close range...
...proposed to embrace the powerful railroad brotherhoods, which have stood aloof from the AFL - CIO fight, would deny CIO President John L. Lewis or AFL President William Green offices in the proposed new organization, and recommended the retirement of Green and AFL Secretary Frank Morrison at their present salary...
...such a position as to enable her to dominate the markets of her weaker neighbors, this does not mean that these countries will docilely submit to orders from Berlin. The dynamic force of nationalism must not be overlooked. Peoples like the Poles and Slavs can be counted upon to fight to the last man for their independent status. Even if once conquered, such subjects would be extremely dubious allies in event of another world conflagration...