Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer, got into Spain to join the Loyalist Army. Landing, he was rushed to Albacete ("when I saw the name on the station it meant nothing then"), where in an ex-nunnery the collection of foreign volunteers later to be known as the International Column were being drilled for combat. Here he had his first chance to look about him, see what his comrades-in-arms were like. They were an odd assortment...
...Graz, Styria, Austria, one Johann Fuchs, accused of killing a woman of whose child he was the father, came to trial at 9 a. m. in one of the Austrian emergency courts originally established in 1934 to combat political terrorism, pleaded guilty, was sentenced at 11 a. m., was executed...
...Passed and sent to the House the Reynolds Bill guaranteeing combat veterans of any future wars, disability and death benefits equal to those of veterans of the World War. (No provision was made however for future veterans' bonuses...
...nearby Nanticoke. No one was killed, no one was hospitalized. More important than any demonstration was the fact that some employers welcomed the strike as a storm which might settle the dust of disorganization, and others got down to business by forming an association of their own, not to combat Mr. Hillman's T. W. O. C. but to deal with it in friendly fashion...
...General Miaja, increasingly a leader of the populace rather than an orthodox commander, evidently thought psychology would fight on the side of continuing to hold Brunete, however desperate the cost. With the sky full of battling pursuit ships and lumbering bombers, Leftists and Rightists spent the week locked in combat, each giving the other all they had. Rightists first swept overwhelmingly forward to retake Brunete, then as the afternoon wore on Leftists crept forward, recaptured most of Brunete in a sunset onslaught and by dawn were stubbornly giving ground, battling bayonet to bayonet, with warcraft diving from the skies...