Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...care if the whole world knew they were discussing possible occupation by British troops of the lowlands of Belgium and Holland should France and Germany again become embroiled. After a week of such military fraternizing General Max flew home to Paris escorted by a whole squadron of British combat planes...
...where the president of the American Federation of Labor went to try to persuade the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers to call off its strike plans. The finish was in Washington where President Roosevelt flashed across the Congressional adjournment deadline a winner with a new law to combat strikes in any industry. By the time Mr. Green reached the starting post Amalgamated was already in convention to vote the strike and nearby steel companies were putting up barbed wire, importing carloads .of cots for workers to sleep in their plants, hiring guards, laying in supplies of tear...
Warner issued the following statement last night: "Harvard, in its position as one of the leading colleges of the country, should not allow itself to be branded with the stigma of standing by while war comes closer. The Committee means to do whatever can be done to combat...
Blowoff. All this world activity in the name of peace was not lost on the fighters in the Chaco. If two years of bloody combat that has already cost nearly 45,000 lives was to end for lack of fighting material generals on both sides decided that they could have one last glorious blowoff. That last week they...
...that he would reopen all but the lower grades of his parochial school, require every pupil to take an oath of allegiance to him. Satan and his imps would try to destroy the world sometime in September, he said, and he needed an organization "like Hitler's" to combat them...