Word: foe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...target, out-lining an 'H', puncturing a poised beer can so as to let as much of the liquid as possible escape, and the grand duel tourney. In this event, won by Read, each man shoots at a paper model of his opponent, with the first to pierce his foe's heart declared the winner...
...will not only be killed but tortured to make you human." This remarkable threat, scrawled anonymously on the stationery of a Houston, Tex. hotel, was received in Washington last week by John P. Frey, pedantic president of A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department and angriest Labor foe of John L. Lewis' C. I. O. Mr. Frey boldly announced that he would go right ahead with his plan, to head up a mass meeting in Houston this week: start an A. F. of L. oil organizing drive in competition with the C. I. O. campaign which...
...still struggling to rebuild his Stockton law practice when the Civil War broke out. Wounded at Chickamauga, Terry was a Confederate brigadier before the war ended. Afterward he tried sheep and cotton in Mexico, then went back to Stockton for a third try at the Law. As a foe of the moneyed interests, he helped rewrite California's constitution, helped beat George Hearst for Governor in 1882, helped keep U. S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field of California from getting his home State's endorsement for the Presidential nomination in 1884. He had reason to regret that...
...Federal circuit court to cancel Sarah Althea's claims, the Terrys took front-row seats. On the bench, doing the regular circuit duty then required of U. S. Supreme Court Justices, sat Terry's one-time colleague on the State Supreme Court bench and his longtime political foe, Justice Field. As he began to read a decision against Mrs. Terry, she clutched her handbag arsenal, stood...
...refused to deliver to him, gave Chief Justice Marshall a chance to set his Federalist stamp on U. S. history. For the first time he asserted the right of the Supreme Court to nullify Acts of Congress as "unconstitutional." Thomas Jefferson, Marshall's distant cousin and lifelong political foe, never acknowledged that claim. If it were correct, he declared in the first great anti-Supreme Court blast, "then indeed is our Constitution a complete felo-de-se [suicide...