Word: fight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April...
Chancellor Adenauer's government faced plenty of parliamentary fights with its enemies and with its own supporters; but that was not necessarily a cause for worry. In its first days, the new German legislature had behaved no more irresponsibly than any of the Continent's traditionally raucous parliaments; the Germans might get to learn the old parliamentary lesson of how to fight and still get the work done...
...city contract. The Horvitz brothers decided that the way to answer Publisher Raymond Cyrus Hoiles was to go into the newspaper business them selves, in competition with Hoiles's papers in Lorain (pop. 44,000) and Mansfield (pop. 37,000). By 1930 the contractors had won their fight. Publisher Hoiles,† who had made many enemies by his violent attacks on schools, churches and unions, sold out his Lorain and Mansfield papers, and they were later merged with the Horvitz dailies...
...With his fight won, Jacob promptly began trimming his liquor prices again. This time he had plenty of company. Chicago department stores, Goldblatt's and Wieboldt's, slashed 96? off fifths of such bonded bourbons as Old Crow, Old Forester and I. W. Harper (new price $5.79), made lesser cuts on blended whiskies...
...flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does not object to pressagents trumpeting his praises. Recently, when Jack Warner ordered a publicity blackout on Wald, ostensibly to cut down demands on his prize producer's valuable time, Wald put up a fight and got the order reversed...