Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would, however, require a very powerful organization to combat the almost universal desire of European musicians to come to America...
...preponderant ascendancy in Mexico during the more than quarter-century-long presidencies of Porfirio Diaz (1877-80, 1884-1911), largely, it is touted, through the good offices of his two pro-Catholic wives, the second, luscious, youthful, blooming. Since then the governments of Mexico have been too unstable to combat the Vatican seriously, until the rise-of President Calles, backed by a resolute, anti-Catholic agrarian-laborite support of Communistic ilk. For the present the Vicar of Christ has contented himself with ordering prayers throughout Catholic Christendom for the supremacy of the Church. His Holiness knows that, though he will...
...Treasury set out to combat Franco-British propaganda against "U. S. debt Shylocking" by announcing over Mr. Mellon's signature: 1) that under the Mellon-Berenger agreement, if and when ratified, France will repay a sum roughly equivalent to only her post-War borrowings from the U. S., and may therefore be said to have been forgiven her War debt entire; 2) that "England borrowed a large proportion of its debt to us for purely commercial, as distinguished from War, purposes to save borrowing from its own people." (i. e. Britain deserves no cancellation of these "commercial" camouflaged...
...death. To Dzerzhinsky-in the opinion of virtually all foreign correspondents at Moscow-belongs almost the sole credit for having inculcated a spirit kindred to "efficiency" into sluggard Soviet industry. Working in sympathy with Trotzsky-also "a practical man"-he has striven literally day and night to combat the visionary, theoretical Marxism which is the chief curse of the Soviets...
Manhattan. Here 500 owners of Florida property banded into the Florida Property Owners Association to combat false propaganda against Florida, to concentrate information about their land troubles; above all to manage somehow to get extensions on their mortgages and reductions on their interest rates...