Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mostly to do with mechanics, hydraulics, aerodynamics. From pedagogy he went to the Artillery. In 1917 he was sent to France where his executive abilities were soon recognized. He organized the A. E. F.'s Line of Communications, later did the same for the Service of Supply, saw combat service in the Argonne...
Henry Wells and William George Fargo were two bearded New Yorkers who banded together in 1844 to combat the powerful express business of Boston's Alvin Adams. Before the fight had gone far, there came the Gold Rush of '49. To Daniel Hale Haskell, an Adams Express clerk, this was a great enticement, which soon led him off to start a California branch. In June 1852, Samuel P. Carter arrived in San Francisco to be general agent for Wells, Fargo & Co. There followed a rip-roaring battle between the two express companies. From it, Writer Wilson has neatly...
...America's public service, I stand squarely behind the belief that a brilliant opportunity for service and achievement lies ahead for the trained college graduate of 1936 who accepts the interesting opportunities today afforded by the public service. Regardless of the protection of Civil Service or other efforts to combat spoils system practices, such young men are in demand not only in government, but also in public organizations (such as the growing number of associations of government officials and the like) and private industry. Indeed, the future might very well reveal to us that the two-sided experience...
...fire and his first impressions of European cannon when British battleships bombarded Kagoshima, where Togo served in one of the smoothbore, muzzle-loading batteries. Three years later he joined the Navy, fought all through Japan's civil war. "At 21 he was a naval veteran of more actual combat experience than many an officer acquires in a lifetime of service." Early marked as a sound fellow, Togo was one of twelve young officers sent to England to get his training straight from the lion's mouth. To his British instructors too he seemed sound. "He was not what...
Energetic Winthrop House Dance Committeemen organized a shovel brigade yesterday to combat the rising tide of water and slush and clear a parking space for the Friday evening dance...