Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...references to A. R. Orage have greatly interested admirers of his trenchant critical pen in his old New Age days. One of the high spots of his editorship of that weekly was the sponsoring and of the the forcing Douglas "Social Credit Movement" and the forcing into spectacular journalistic combat of the famous economic " A plus B" Theorem. This latter declares that the total purchasing power of the community only secured by way of wages, salaries and dividends, is, under the present cost-accounting system, insufficient to buy back the total products of industry...
Hormone Surgery. A hormone, secreted by a gland at the base of the brain, was discovered by Milton 0. Lee of Harvard. It tends to lower combustion rate of tissue. This faculty might, he suggested, be employed to combat tissue destruction caused by the hormone of the thyroid gland, obviate the necessity for many surgical operations...
...Bethlehem v. Eaton over Youngstown combat first began in a long conference, attended by the three chiefs and their seconds. Apparently Mr. Eaton convinced them that his was no feeble gesture, for at the end of eight and a half hours he came out grinning while Mr. Grace and Mr. Campbell clambered down 20 floors of fire-escape to avoid newsgatherers...
...Wets' chief attack on Prohibition had been that it was no benefit to industry and business, that no part of Prosperity was attributable to its influence. To combat this view was the prime purpose of Dry witnesses. In their zeal they went to what seemed unfair lengths by a counter charge that the Wets favored a return of the saloon. Hardly a Wet witness had appeared before the committee who had not specifically, emphatically, disowned the saloon as a liquor institution...
...Hoover visitors were Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of the President of Harvard University, and Mrs. Francis E. Slattery. They have organized "The Silent Women of America," whose purpose is to combat "the nationalization of children" through various forms of Federal welfare aid. Mrs. Putnam specified the Silent Women's opposition to the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act under which the U.S. gave States a $1-for-$1 subsidy for welfare work; the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution; and legislation for a U.S. Department of Education...