Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hugh S. Johnson has in the last twelve-month had many a scrap but until last week he never met adversaries who could and would match him invective for invective. As in the automobile labor fracas, he had two adversaries to beat into agreement: 1) the steelmasters headed by Eugene...
The Charlestown affair was just one more example of the aimless and poorly conducted demonstrations which a certain number of students in any institution can always be led into supporting. The fact that the participants in Thursday's brawl did not distinguish the particular bone they proposed to pick with...
Raft's rise from coal miner, gigolo, and cabaret performer, to night club owner is accomplished by his repeated refusal to mix business with pleasure, firing his dancing partners when they interfere with his consuming desire to be famous. Becoming a sensation in London and Paris with Helen (Carole Lombard...
Driving along a Washington street one day last week. Farmer-Laborite Representative-at-Large from Minnesota Francis Henry Shoemaker bumped a taxi. When Charles Newman jumped out of his cab to protest, he said Statesman Shoemaker doubled up his ready fists, slugged him. knocked him to the ground twice, cursed...
Among the various exhibitions of violence in the day's news, two items stand out above the rest. Down in the pleasant, palm-strewn island of Cuba, a native brand of hell burst out in full vigor as civil war recommenced on a sizeable scale. The fight centered about the...