Word: skirmishers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...withdrawal of U. S. sailors was taken to signify that the Government at Tegucigalpa, the capital, had the situation in hand; but no definite report came from Honduras, except that a skirmish near Ceiba between Government troops and rebels ended in a victory for the former...
...Monday morning Greek class failed to show proper respect for his instructor's authority and refused to translate. In the report of the affair issued by the Seniors on June 11, a letter of the Freshman in question is accepted as giving an accurate account of the first skirmish...
Premier Herriot's battle with the Catholic Church has brought a hornet's nest about his ears, and may make his position as Premier even more precarious. The strike of school children in Alsace-Lorraino was merely a local skirmish in the nation-wide dissention, but it was the spark which set off the fiery Chamber of Deputies into fist-fight over Herriot's policy. Both sides have lined up for a fight to the finish on the question of what position the Church shall assume in French education...
Scrubs Have First Skirmish...
...first skirmish is begun. It centers about the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, where Dr. Fosdick, Baptist, preaches most every Sunday. Three Presbyterian ministers lead the fight to oust Dr. Fosdick from that Presbyterian pulpit. One is Dr. Maitland Alexander of Pittsburgh. He is a rigid man, pastor of the biggest and richest Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh, himself rich. He is also President of the Board of Directors of Princeton Theological Seminary, famous for its changeless conservatism from generation to generation. The second leader is Dr. Walter D. Buchanan, pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian Church of New York City...