Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vibrates in harmony with the best thought in America. Those who can read the signs of the present period of national life know that atheism, bigotry, bolshevism, disrespect for law and order and arrogant interference with the liberties of the individual are the evils which right-minded citizens must combat. If the members of this order practice what they preach we constitute the organized force best prepared to battle against these un-American tendencies...
...contained a bomb. Just then a member of the U. S. delegation appeared, shook warmly the hand of the mysterious stranger, William H. Moran, who is, as everyone knows, Chief of the U. S. Secret Service. He was present in Geneva last week to attend the International Conference to Combat Counterfeiting...
...helped 21 governments to combat hookworm disease...
...York Central. His residences are on St. Nicholas Ave., N. Y. C., and Calumet Ave., Chicago. His chief club, The Turf Club (Chicago). His sons, Devere Joseph and George Joseph Jr., are in civil service and sportdom, respectively. George Joseph Jr. achieved some fame as a pugilist (nom de combat, "Jose Alvarez, the Mexican Kid") and fought "Kid" MacPartland to a bloody draw in his last ring appearance, in Illinois. Mr. Warner Jr. now bets on race horses...
Newspaper accounts in no way magnify the seriousness of the flood situation in the South. I have just come from Arkansas which has had to combat not only the overflow from the Mississippi river but floods from five rivers which flow across the State and empty into the Mississippi. For four days the city of Little Rock, of over 100,000 inhabitants, was completely cut off from the outside world except by telegraph and aeroplane. Similar conditions now exist in most of the towns and cities along the Mississippi. When the levee broke near Greenville, Mississippi, which is a prosperous...