Word: fights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Profitable Failure. Politically, the White House inner operatives thought they could make as much capital out of some of their failures as out of their accomplishments. Truman's inept fight for the repeal of Taft-Hartley and for civil-rights legislation had confirmed him, they argued, as the champion of labor and the Negro. What they meant was that labor and the Negro might have no grounds for gratitude to Harry Truman, but might still prefer him to his opponents. Crowed one Fair Dealer with satisfaction: "We haven't lost a Negro vote. We haven't lost...
...after James M. Curley had just been elected mayor of Boston for the third time, the fight began at the State Democratic Convention to nominate a candidate for governor. Curley was supporting John F. Fitzgerald, a former city mayor, against Joseph B. Ely, a strong Yankee democrat from Springfield. The fight was bitter because Curley feared that Ely, with his popularity throughout the State, would set up a very strong personal machine. Late in the Convention, Fitzgerald withdrew and Ely became nominee for governor in a year which promised success to almost any democrat...
...Young Citizen's Times" is, of course, a partisan paper, printing the bulk of the material that Hynes is using as a weapon in his fight. Many of the columns in the first issue published figures charging maladministration, others discussed Hynes' life, still others were collections of pro-Hynes quips that have come up during the campaign's progress. One feature was a book review of "The Purple Shamrock" by Joseph F. Dinneen; another was a series of editorials trying to appeal to the younger voters...
...morning and early afternoon 15 members of MGM's production crew and 25 College student "extras" waited for the sun to stay out long enough for prolonged shooting. After taking incompletely four of the six scheduled Yard and Law School scenes, directors and cameramen finally gave up the fight at 2:40 p.m. and agreed to try again today...
...background is another dramatic period of U.S. history: the fierce Indian uprisings that followed Custer's last stand. But despite hordes of hopping-mad Cheyennes in full war paint, there is not a first-class Injun fight in the whole film. For some unaccountable reason the hair-raising possibilities of authentic history have been submerged in the muddled and often maudlin story of an overaged cavalry officer (John Wayne) in a U.S. Army outpost. More unaccountably, the paste-pot yarn was put together by two veteran scripters: Frank Nugent and Laurence Stallings...