Word: battlegrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what to do, but you don't do it!" Author Freeman's half-length portrait shows a kindly but aloof gentleman, a believe-it-or-not Christian Soldier. But some of the soldiers he commanded were more human if less humane. One Confederate private, rummaging the battleground during a truce after Fredericksburg, was reprimanded by a Federal officer for salvaging a rifle; the officer said that was against the rules. Said the butternut veteran: "Never mind, I'll shoot you tomorrow and git them boots." That Lee's example of considerate politeness sometimes had its effect...
...this last move reach deep into the rich manure of European diplomacy. Abyssinia is perhaps the last independent kingdom in Africa. Ever since the gaudy coronation of kinky-haired Power of Trinity I as Emperor four years ago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930), the country has been a secret battleground for Europe's colonizing Great Powers. Only port of entry is Djibouti in French Somaliland. Otherwise Italy and Britain hem the country in on all sides. In addition Japanese tycoons who have been dumping cheap cotton goods and manufactures in the country, are negotiating for great tracts of land to grow...
...speaking of the type of question which the ballot contains the Digest says: "In framing the ballot, the Digest aimed at the utmost simplicity. Otherwise there was a danger of the ballot becoming a battleground of opinion on the various component elements of the New Deal, their merits and demerits in the minds of individual voters. Any consideration of details might have confused the balloters and obscured the purpose of the poll which was to distil, from a generous cross-section of the nation, a pure sample of American sentiment on the subject of the New Deal on the whole...
...beside these various sketches for Utopia there is another side to the T.V.A., which cannot be slighted, and probably will not be, since it runs into the old battleground of government vs. private interests. This side is the determination by the Federal authorities to operate the existing power-generating plants in competition with new stations as well. The T.V.A. gives them warning to cooperate, reduce rates, or face the competition of duplicate plants. Over this entire question there has been thrown a great deal of confusion, adulterated with considerable propaganda. Experts and college professors, publicists and Congressmen have been bought...
...Great Britain and Japan are currently in a deadly struggle for the textile markets of Asia and Europe, with India as the immediate battleground. Wages in Japan are about one-quarter of wages in Lancashire. Currently a conference is being held at Simla, but, over the long pull, there seems little hope for Lancashire...