Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Headquarters Air Force of the U. S. Army is known as the M-Day (Mobilization Day) force. Its men and equipment are supposed to be ready to take the air at a moment's notice, concentrate at any point in the U. S. to fight off attackers. Regarded as the most important development since the War in the modernization of U. S. military forces, it is divided into Eastern, East Central and Western Wings, operating from bases at Langley Field, Va., Barksdale Field, La. and Hamilton Field, Calif. Under President Roosevelt's strong national defense program...
...Roman Catholic Archbishop, George William Cardinal Mundelein, who started life on Manhattan's lower East Side and early won renown as a youthful orator. Before 500 Catholic prelates and priests assembled for the quarterly diocesan conference at Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Cardinal Mundelein tore into the Nazi Government: "The fight is to take the [2,000,000 German] children away from us. ... Perhaps you will ask how it is that a nation of 60,000,000 people, intelligent people, will submit in fear and servitude to an alien, an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one at that, I am told...
...England, Producer Korda's most noteworthy picture on the new season's schedule will be I, Claudius with Charles Laughton and Merle Oberon. Said Producer Korda last week before leaving for a United Artists directors' meeting in Hollywood: "I feel that British pictures have to fight prejudice on the part of big American circuits. . . . While I am here I will look into the matter...
...item, of painting in the sale was Indian Warfare, by Frederic Remington, incorrectly subtitled Custer's Last Stand. Though not the traditional Custer's Last Fight, painted especially in 1888 for Budweiser Beer advertisements by Cassidy Adams, this canvas brought top price for painting. It went for $7,700 to a Manhattan connoisseur whose agents, the Macbeth Gallery, also laid out $10,200 for a pair of similar Western pictures by Charles Marion Russell: Hunter's Luck, a hunter stymied by a cliff, and The Holdup, a stagecoach robbery...
Although Forbes Morgan had been occupied with the fight between producers and Pennsylvania at the time of his death, it was not because of this one fight that liquor interests last week badly needed a new front man. On the eve of the Kentucky Derby fortnight ago in Louisville, an assembly of liquor men who make up the Distilled Spirits Institute received word from California that the State Legislature had passed and sent to Governor Frank Merriam an "antidiscrimination" liquor bill not unlike Missouri's. Prime purpose of the bill is to protect proud California's wine growers...