Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slamming trade doors tight shut against another war, he suggested cash & carry as an alternative. Contemptuously, brilliant "Bernie" Baruch calls his cash & carry principle "scuttle & run." He wants peace, but his real idea of how to keep it is to have the U. S. so well-prepared to fight that no nation will dare to antagonize it. No man knows better than the onetime chairman of the War Industries Board that the biggest guns in modern war are not military but economic. He struggled heroically to hurl the U. S.'s vast economic power into the War but, forced...
When famed Feminist Carrie Chapman Catt saw that the fight for woman suffrage in the U. S. was about to be won. she journeyed to the Philippine Islands in 1913 and publicly proposed suffrage for her little brown sisters. Male Filipinos laughed derisively. Their women had been virtual slaves in their homes until the Philippines came under U. S. rule...
...Spanish civil war put blood in the eye of Owen O'Duffy. From the back hills he recruited a battalion of young boys, sworn to die in the fight against communism and in defense of the Catholic Church, and that a great many of them did. Last week, with General Franco pounding away at the gates of Bilbao, word came that General O'Duffy's Irish Brigade would soon be on the way back to Britain. The official reason was that since the international non-intervention scheme went into effect fortnight ago, no replacements could...
...ranks hate all their foreign colleagues, but have found the thin ranks of the Irish Brigade easiest to impose on. In the frontal attack on Madrid recently the Irish Brigade suddenly found itself under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire from its own rear, suffered heavy casualties, had to fight its way back through the Rightist ranks...
...bosky Avenida Rio Branco, bottled old President Washington Luis up in jail and helped Getulio Vargas become President of Brazil. Washington Luis and President-elect Julio Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world market only with such specialties as cocoa, Brazil nuts or carnauba wax (phonograph records), are merely so many jungle-choked, politically impotent drains on the Federal Treasury, this shift provoked no outcry. Rebellious Paulistas were brought...