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Word: prefight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure of anything, Champion Roosevelt could count on the National Association of Postmasters being in his corner a year from November. It was a routine prefight precaution for Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, onetime chairman of New York State's Athletic Commission, to appear before the postmasters' Chicago convention last week and assure those loyal jobholders that slurs from the Republican camp against their man were "just plain politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roadwork | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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