Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago the Foreign Minister ended a long Chamber of Deputies debate on foreign policy by half-heartedly reading a strong anti-appeasement speech written for him. M. Daladier, on the other hand, thrilled the Chamber by an extemporaneous talk in which he declared that France would fight rather than satisfy Benito Mussolini's demands for French territory...
Later on, M. Bonnet set out to sabotage the Daladier fight talk. In an "off-the-record" lecture to nine French political reporters, some well-known in Paris as tipsters for foreign embassies, the Foreign Minister censured the French press for its treatment of the "Italian question," warned that it would bring Italian bombs "on our heads" and declared, in effect, that there was much to be said for the Italian claims to Tunisia, Corsica, Djibouti, the Suez Canal...
Other portents: Settlement of the TVA fight (TIME, Feb. 13) apparently cleared the decks for utility modernization, and last week another major purchaser of producer goods-the railroads-seemed hellbent on a spending spree. Union Pacific announced a $15,000,000 expansion program-new rails, box cars, locomotives and remodeled coaches. Missouri Pacific ordered $1,500,000 worth of rails. All told, railway-equipment manufacturers said that already this year they had received orders for 375,000 tons of rails, only 25,000 tons less than 1938's total orders...
Stand Up and Fight (Robert Taylor, Wallace Beery, Florence Rice; TIME...
Dunc Longcope gave one of the best fights of any one during the afternoon. The sophomore handed 175 pound Captain Robert Taylor another football man of the Lions a tough fight as he kept him from winning by any more than a decision. At times it looked as if Dunc might even take...