Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members gasped at what they took to be the Department of Justice's full-fledged plan to combat crime. From the floor rose angry cries: ''Answer him! Unconstitutional! States' rights! Answer...
...doctors, one of whom was Blake Wilbur, testified that the wounds on her head might have resulted from a blow against the bathtub rim and faucets. Since the evidence against Lamson was purely circumstantial this point loomed important as the basis for "reasonable doubt." Desperately the prosecution sought to combat it. It called Dr. Arthur William Meyer, head of the Stanford anatomy department, who testified that Mrs. Lamson's scalp indicated that she had been seized and yanked forward. Pathologist Proescher claimed he had conducted a personal experiment to disprove the accident theory. He had undressed, got into...
...Army Council has recently decided that the D.S.O. can only be awarded for service in action, which means: 1) services under fire: 2) services in connection with air raids, bombardments, or other enemy action which at the time produces conditions equivalent to services in actual combat. Formerly the D.S.O. could be won for an act of great military merit not necessarily performed in the presence of the enemy...
...busses rattled, milk wagons resumed their rounds, markets opened and storekeepers finally raised their steel shutters. After a conference with Ambassador Welles, the Provisional President formed a partial Cabinet, with no Secretary of State. Triumphant members of the ABC, the secret anti-Machado cabal formed three years ago to combat the Porra, received four Cabinet posts, with Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz, chief of the A B C, as Secretary of the Treasury...
...range of foreign warships." Ostensibly all China's new Hawks will be Chinese piloted in any fighting which may take place. During the Shanghai battle at least one U. S. pilot, handsome Robert Short of Tacoma, Wash., took up a lone Boeing against six Japanese combat planes, killed one Japanese pilot and was shot down to death in flames (TIME...