Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combat "conservatives" in business and politics but perhaps less savagely than before, since he thinks that some of them may now be ready to surrender...
...long ago as 1908, western waterfront employers began to combat incipient labor organizations through local and coastwise associations. Now, in every western port save Tacoma, Wash., and three lesser ports on Puget Sound, four regional associations and the master Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast, represent all but a few small companies in continual bickers & dickers with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
Birthday. Gustaf V, King of Sweden, the Goths, and the Wends (popularly known as "Mr. G"), 80; in Stockholm. During 20 hours of feting, he reviewed his troops and air fleet, assigned a popularly subscribed birthday present of 5,000,000 kroner ($1,250,000) to combat infantile paralysis and rheumatic diseases...
Because of this public deafness, contemporary composers have been in danger of turning into mutes. To combat this deafness and muteness, societies of intrepid and hard-eared listeners have been formed, who sit through concerts of contemporary music almost without flinching. Chief among these devoted bands is the International Society for Contemporary Music, which last week opened its 16th annual festival in London...
...Clinchy last week laid down a five-point program to combat religious intolerance: i) Maintain the U. S. separation of Church & State. 2) Maintain the fact of the sovereignty of God over the State. 3) Watch lest the churches become too rich. 4) Develop the conference idea among religious citizens. 5) "Religious people, before all others, should be aware that the best guard against Nazi, Communist and Fascist propaganda is to produce an American social order better than these can promise...