Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens and Army Chief of Staff Matt Ridgway and approved their plan to increase Army combat divisions from...
...Well over 50% of the voters interviewed generally approve of the Eisenhower Administration (although a high percentage feels that the Government should be doing something more to combat unemployment...
Within hours after Senator McCarran's death, Nevada politicians were locked in close combat over a successor. Democratic Attorney General William Mathews ruled that the vacancy must be filled at the November 2 election. Republican Governor Charles Russell retaliated by appointing Ernest S. Brown, a lawyer and a Republican, to fill the term, which does not expire until 1956. The argument will probably have to be settled in Nevada courts...
...days of silence, Red guns had resumed their bombardment. Hour after hour the loudspeakers screamed across the sea to the dug-in Nationalists that the Reds would take Quemoy by Oct. 15. In Peking, Defense Minister General Peng Teh-huai ordered his troops to "be constantly prepared for combat" and promised, "We shall assuredly free Formosa from the yoke of American imperialists...
Fleming, who joined the Army as a private in 1942, went to Korea in 1950, spent 50 days in combat and 34 months in prison camps. According to Army witnesses, he was elected camp leader "because he seemed to have gotten along O.K." with the Reds: he led Marxist study groups, made Red propaganda recordings, and mouthed the Communist line about "the imperialistic, capitalistic Wall Street warmongers...