Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After four days of savage combat, General Ely led his general officers into a cinema house at Bordentown, explained what had been done, told them their performance "smacked of military genius." He added that the U. S. should have a trained emergency army of 200,000 in the Second Corps Area for instant military service, bemoaned the fact that the U. S. has no such force...
...asked the Tariff Commission to supply him with the names of Democratic Senators who had appealed to it for higher tariff rates under the law's flexible, clause for commodities of, local interest to them. It was said that President Hoover was going to use this information to combat the Democratic attack upon tariff flexibility, to show that many a Democrat had covertly sought to use this very machinery to get higher rates for special commodities. Mississippi's Senator Harrison shouted that neither he nor any other Democrat would thus be "bludgeoned or browbeaten" by the White House...
Fast Tank. The Army sent a wicked-looking military contraption charging over a rough Maryland field and among sand dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
...keep the price of bread within the means of urban workers and to net the Government a profit on its exports). The fact that there is more grain planted this year is due not to peasant efforts but to State farms and co-operatives inaugurated by the Government to combat the negative attitude of the peasant...
...layman, chairman of the National Citizens' Committee of 1,000 for Law Enforcement, leader in lay religious organizations both national and international, was unanimously elected Moderator by the Congregationalists. Some time ago Moderator Smith retired from gainful occupation with Johns-Manville Corp., famed asbestos makers, to combat Hell's fire through church work...