Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Woodring therefore ordered 67,500 troops into Southern States this winter for a long period of intensive training-largest peacetime concentration in history of the regular army. Officers will be able to whip newly streamlined, mobile divisions* into coordinated units educated to the new theories of combat...
...spite of the "violations and insults which Germany and her armed forces had to put up with from these military dilettantes," the First Soldier of the Reich claimed that he "endeavored to restrict aerial warfare to objectives of so-called military importance, or only to employ it to combat active resistance at a given point." (For photographs and an accompanying eyewitness account of German restricted aerial warfare see p. 45.) Lie No. 3: All objective reports of the last days of besieged Warsaw agree that the Germans refused point-blank to allow the garrison to evacuate non-combatants from...
...student who is a raring, fire-breathing Pegasus when the organization is his own, is discouragingly hesitant when it comes to joining other people's parties. The A. I. L. has inertia and even distrust and misunderstanding to combat. Moreover, this attitude is partly due to the League's own negative statements of policy...
...name the belligerents. 2) After issuance of such a proclamation, no American vessel may carry passengers or goods to any named belligerents. 3) No goods of any sort may be shipped to belligerents until all rights, title and interest have been transferred abroad. 4) The President shall then proclaim combat areas, which no citizen or U. S. vessel may enter. 5) No U. S. citizen may travel on any belligerent's vessel. 6) No U. S. merchant ship may be armed. 7) No U. S. citizen or corporation may buy, sell or exchange bonds, securities, etc. of any belligerent...
...greatest single obstacle which this league must combat is an irrational and fatalistic way of thinking that is startlingly prevalent in America now," a spokesman for the group asserted. "Mass emotionalism can be checked," he said, "if the crucial issues are presented, as they arise, in a clear-cut and sensible fashion...