Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little boy was Paul Howard Douglas, who grew up to be a college professor, a famous economist, and a combat veteran himself. But he never got over being sort of sore at injustice, wherever he found it. He was from the beginning a rebel, a reformer, a crusader for the boys at the end of the line. The people of Chicago made him an alderman; in 1948 the voters of Illinois sent him to the U.S. Senate...
Last week, before the New York State Public Service Commission, Grand Central and its captive audience met in combat. Spokesmen for the railroads defended their right to raise revenue with noise, said a poll by an outfit known as Fact Finders Inc. showed over 85% of the commuters approved, hauled out a psychiatrist who said the noise could harm nobody who was all right in the head. The whole storm of protest, complained that railroads, was started by "an adult comic book," i.e., The New Yorker magazine...
...Major General George B. McClellan, whose reputation, even for his conduct of the disastrous Peninsular Campaign of 1862, had improved under the ministrations of recent historians. Williams makes it hard to believe that "Little Mac" was anything but a stuffed tunic, an ambitious parade-ground dandy whose timidity in combat was close kin to cowardice. In battle, Confederate generals relied on McClellan's fears just as Lincoln came to be sure of his incompetence. Writes Williams: "No blow by [Stonewall] Jackson could be quite as paralyzing as an order by McClellan...
Williams writes with a soldier's knowledge of tactics, troop movements and logistics. He also writes less like a historian than a staff officer setting down a combat analysis. The result is no placid study, but a creative rethinking of whole campaigns...