Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Isvestia, official daily, explained that this man used to be "the hireling of capitalist traders," namely Wanamaker's Department Store, and is now "the bourgeois counter-revolutionary Police Commissioner of New York City...
Minister Washburn considered it his duty and made it his hobby to obtain a profound grasp of all the secret machinations and counter-machinations of the Socialist and Reactionary irregular armies in Austria: the Schutzbund and the Heimwher. During Vienna's "Red Revolution" in 1927, when the capital was cut off by railway and telegraph strikes from the world, and when Italy was itching to use the excuse of "revolution" to intervene, Mr. Washburn saw that such a coup could best be prevented by smuggling out of the facts, the news. He and another U. S. Minister...
...precious implement during the mêlée. All of California's roadsters and all of her men scoured the roads leading out of Berkeley. But the sly Stanfordmen eluded them, got the axe home, hid it away. Next year Stanford's axe, unless a counter-raid is successful, will once more be brandished in California's face...
...field waning, principally from the lack of proper equipment. No science can be content in the twentieth century with the laboratories that were modern in the nineteenth: and it is fitting that Biology, rising to new importance as the study of medicine increases its demands, should be chosen to counter the contention that Harvard is snubbing science for an excess of the arts...
Cartoons. Roman Catholicism's counter-strokes of the week included the mailing, from Manhattan, of some 30,000 envelopes to each & every priest in the U. S. Recipients of these envelopes noted first that the letterhead within was impressed with the names of three Princes of the Catholic Church: Cardinals Hayes (Manhattan), O'Connell (Boston) and Dougherty (Philadelphia), plus those of the Archbishops of St. Louis, San Francisco, and the Bishops of Cleveland, Kansas City...