Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change deprived him of control of the General Headquarters Air Force. When that unit was established in 1935 as the Army's combat air force, it was placed outside the Air Corps proper. For a further check rein, its first commanding officer (Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews) was made directly responsible to the Chief of Staff. The GHQ Air Force now takes its place in the Air Corps and its new C. O. (Major General Delos CArleton Emmons) will be responsible to Henry Arnold alone...
...inside union, a spontaneously-organized group of employees formed to combat the A.F. of L. encroschment last year, has tried to "poison the membership" of his organization. Stefani charged...
Reference was to a sudden caucus of House Democrats early last week, designed to sink differences and combat with united front the lethally effective tactics of Minority Leader Joe Martin in blocking or steering legislation. Leader Martin's tactics have been simplicity itself: to keep his little band (ratio: 2 to 3) together until the disunited Democrats divide on an issue, then plug home a solid bloc of votes to which enough Democrats may add themselves to constitute a majority. Last week's proposed Democratic strategy was equally simple: to arouse Democrats, who have a 92-vote majority...
...military importance is developed in the Bridgman sanctum sanctum, it is being sane rather than romantic, to admit that the dictatorships can easily obtain the required information at second hand. But the most telling criticism levelled at the recent ban is not one of impracticality. By endeavoring to combat fascism by means of a typical fascist technique, the learned professor is setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom. From prohibition of fascists in specific laboratories to a prohibition extending to graduate courses is no long step; from there the virus...
...Peace Pope's death, Rector Joseph Corrigan of Washington's Catholic University of America, announced a crusade for "God in Government." U. S. Catholics are to pledge themselves to "defend the republic against atheistic propaganda, to maintain respect for rightly constituted authority and finally to combat fearlessly every invasion of the rights of any citizen or any group of citizens...