Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--The Senate tonight added $175,000,000 to the works relief slice of the pending pump-priming bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...
...supposed to have been started by a coalition of Asiatic and European powers, the Blacks, while the U. S. fleet was busy fighting in the Pacific. The Blacks were about to invade the U. S. with two fleets, and it was the job of General Andrews' 187 combat planes and 3,000 men "to concentrate first; to reach out and attack targets in advance of the ground arms, with the general mission of weakening and disorganizing the enemy to the limit of our ability before he comes into contact with these ground forces...
...Government Broadcasting Bill (TIME, May 16) than the whole Congressional swamp sang out for radio legislation. As soon as Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced War, Navy and Interior Department endorsement for the Celler Bill, indicated that plans for a Government station to combat Fascist propaganda in South America had White House backing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman and Senator William E. Borah added their endorsements...
Harvard and Yale track teams, Varsity and Freshman, are tapering off today for their annual dual meet occurring in the Harvard Stadium this Saturday. Always a day of supreme effort, the customary close combat is expected with Yale a slight favorite for the second year...
Tomorrow Coach Mitchell's charges will journey to Ithaca to play a holiday engagement with the Cornell nine. Either Curtiss or Healey will get the nod, since big Ed Ingalls is still hors de combat. The Ithacans pulled an early season league upset yesterday, when their newly uncovered pitcher, Worthy Dodd, defeated Yale 6-3 with only for hits...