Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Transforming Soldiers Field into a bull-fighting area early yesterday, an American Ferdinand the Bull wandered onto the Freshman football field and there engaged in a losing combat with two matadors from the Boston police department...
...question of racism, abhorrent to the international and supranational views of Catholicism, has lately been much on the Pope's mind. There are rumors that he will soon issue an encyclical denouncing racism as a heresy; that a Catholic organization will be launched to combat anti-Semitism throughout the world. The extent to which racism is an issue between the Church and Italy became evident in a sermon preached last fortnight by Italy's famed "Fascist" Cardinal, Archbishop Alfred Ildephonso Schuster of Milan. A lean, ascetic Benedictine, Cardinal Schuster has been spoken of as Mussolini's candidate...
...election was over. No. 1 was national rearmament. While his aides discussed a separate "Emergency budget" for defense; an air fleet of 10,000 airplanes (instead of the 7,000 mentioned fortnight ago), provision in the War Department Appropriation bill (now being drafted) to equip for instant combat an "initial protective force" of 400,000 soldiers (Regular Army plus National Guard), the President himself took action. He ordered a new navy dirigible built (see p. 19). He announced he had ordered a survey of all Federal lands and plants capable of being used toward Rearmament. Mentioned specifically were...
...five and in which Malraux flew as copilot. There was a modern, fast Boeing, useful only as a threat be cause the machine gun could not be synchronized to fire through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat as much as possible. Crews were made up of professional fliers hired on contract, volunteers with more enthusiasm than experience, a few skilled men like Malraux's friend Abel Guidez, who brought down six Fascist planes in the early weeks of the war, was eventually shot down near Bilbao...
Bombers can be downed in two ways: by gunfire from the ground or gunfire from defending planes. Antiaircraft gunnery is soundly organized, having within each combat component (of four guns per battery) an effective detection and warning system, based largely on the fact that big planes can nearly always be heard, and in fair weather can be seen, in time to aim the guns. The one large question mark remaining is accuracy, with which the Army was not primarily concerned last week. Pursuit plane defense is not so soundly organized. Bomber speeds of 250 m.p.h. so nearly equal...