Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such speed on the part of the A. B. A. on a matter less than a week old was no less surprising than the vote by 150 lawyers-delegates deciding that some of the things they were doing were unconstitutional by A. B. A. laws. Brought to a showdown on a resolution urging the Federal Government to extend civil service to all employes except top Government officials, the House of Delegates voted itself out of order, threw out all other proposals not concerned with law and legal orders. Next day, however, delegates approved a civil service resolution relating to Federal...
...both were amateurs, they played four. Vines won them all. In a Davis Cup match in 1933 Perry beat Vines by default when Vines fainted at the match point in the fifth set. Vines became a professional later in 1933. Until last week, the closest thing to a contemporary showdown between Perry and Vines was an afternoon of informal practice when Perry was playing in and Vines reporting the U. S. Amateur Championship at Forest Hills last summer. At Forest Hills, Vines won every set they played. Last week, he was a top-heavy favorite to put his superiority...
...such scurrying of Government leaders to U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, the arbiter of every Cuban crisis, as there has not been since the collapse of Provisional President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin's Government (TIME, Jan. 22, 19-34). This pother seemed to be preparation for a showdown between Cuba's military and Cuba's politicians. Real Strong Man of the Army is ruthless Lieut. Colonel Inspector José Pedraza Calvera, but the military's mouthpiece is Colonel Fulgencio Batista who likes to play at being a dictator and like most European dictators...
...taken Paris almost to their own surprise, were uneasy about controlling a city of 750,000, undecided between the Bourbons and Napoleon's son, anxious to avoid an unpopular move. So long as the French Army seemed solidly for Napoleon or his heir, they would avoid a showdown. The Sixth Corps of the French Army, under the square-faced, conscientious, devoted Duke of Ragusa, was at Essonnes, close to Paris. Caulaincourt therefore was to inform Ragusa of the changed plans, proceed to Paris with Napoleon's abdication, stall for time in negotiations with Alexander, while Napoleon maneuvered...
...common welfare, since she reminds gruff Tom of an old sweetheart, thus softens him a little without actually leading him into sin. Sometimes Author Thomas, despite her zest for writing about the homely details of farm life, comes perilously close to setting her characters in situations where a showdown would be inevitable-e.g., when Tom's wife recognizes the reasons for Tom's increasing amiability. But by the time Edna has fractured her back and Phyllis and Ralph have a house of their own, all tension is removed and the story comes to a classic sentimental conclusion...