Word: fights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem, as recently stated by one promoter, is simply this: "If we sell television rights, nobody comes to the fight. The only way for us to make a profit is to hang out the 'no television' sign." And that's just what is happening...
...College AVC chapter will use the power of its national affiliate, the American Veterans Committee, to fight for the elimination of the "stool pigeon clause" from the loyalty oath which all Navy men, including college Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps members, are required to fill...
...Charge? Other reasons he left unmentioned, but one was written large in last summer's headlines. In answering up to Republican Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper's charges of maladministration, Lilienthal had rekindled the partisan politics which blazed up during the fight over his nomination. Should he stand for reappointment in 1950, he reasoned that neither he nor the program would benefit from another tumultuous going-over...
...McCullough Defense Fund. Westbrook Pegler took up the crusade. So did George Sokolsky, columnist in the New York Sun, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald, and Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Money came in, mostly in small denominations, from militant sympathizers; $18,000 was collected to help Mrs. McCullough fight her libel case through the federal courts...
...atomic energy program. The new commission inherited a uranium plant at Oak Ridge, military laboratories at Los Angeles, a research program mainly directed towards weapon development, and a small supply of atomic bombs. David E. Lilienthal was appointed chairman; the Senate confirmed his appointment after a bitter and vindictive fight...