Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detective Lippmann's analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's motives: "Last year, when his party was split, his personal prestige at low ebb ... I should imagine that he may have considered seriously making a fight for a third nomination. . . . But now the situation has been changed, not by the war but by Mr. Roosevelt's reaction to the war. . . . The war is ... a subject on which, because his mind is clear, his convictions are resolute. The war therefore has brought out the best that was in him, and he has become what he might always have been...
Stronger Than 1914. The wisdom of a cautious, controlled war economy, and the economic strength which Britain this time brings into the fight, were assayed last week by William Burton Burton-Baldry, London broker, in his lively Fortnightly Review...
...Protestants than by Catholics. Yet as World War II began to loom, widespread signs of pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained the fact that this seemed to be England's war-and most U. S. Catholic churchmen are of Irish origin...
...enters the war, Catholics should "give serious thought to the question of whether or not they should be conscientious objectors." So said Archbishop Francis Joseph Beckman of Dubuque, who helped Father Coughlin in his unsuccessful keep-the-embargo fight...
After a scoreless second stanza, the Elis went into the third quarter with a new fight, and before the final gun, they tallied twice and racked up seven first downs while holding the Lamarmen to three...