Word: skirmishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to go downhill. Love affairs, finally drink, became his only interest in life. When he saw that his own disintegration was an echo of the Empire's break-up he resigned from the army. Then came War; he re-enlisted and was shot ingloriously in a border skirmish. His aged father and the decrepit Emperor were left to watch their world dissolve...
Last week President Roosevelt won his opening legal skirmish on the National Recovery Act in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. A Texas refiner attacked his executive order prohibiting the interstate shipment of "hot oil," sought to enjoin Secretary of the Interior Ickes from enforcing it. In a free & easy decision which ducked the issue of constitutionality Justice Joseph Winston Cox refused to grant the injunction. Declared...
...rebellion in Morocco for decades to come. He chose the harder job of forcing a straightforward surrender. In their strongholds, the leaders kept the Berbers at a pitch by preaching "Death before surrender." The French began a tedious, hazardous prowling up the peaks, picking off snipers. In one desperate skirmish they killed the Berber Generalissimo Sidi Ben Ahmed. Some of his rattled followers climbed to a stronghold on the mighty Tizier Ouzine peak. French native troops dragged up deadly 75-mm. guns. Last week the 755 spoke systematically, blew peak and stronghold to ruins. Infantry columns occupied the splintered heights...
...China's independence against Japanese invaders!" read armbands recently stitched on the sleeves of soldiers commanded by China's Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang who promptly received cash contributions from numerous Chinese patriots (TIME, July 31) Last week, without having fought so much as a skirmish since the stitching Marshal Feng thriftily pocketed all cash received, prudently announced, "I am going into retirement." He thus greatly relieved China's Nanking Government which feared to see its de facto peace with Japan broken by Feng or any other Chinese war lord whom the Japanese would certainly have...
...with moon-faced twinkly-eyed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. In London last week correspondents noticed that Comrade Litvinov, once accustomed to being snubbed by Statesman Stimson at Geneva, now hobnobs in friendly fashion with Snubber Stimson's successor, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In the lobbying skirmish fortnight ago to get Vice Chief U. S. Delegate Cox elected Chairman of the Conference Monetary Committee (TIME, June 26), Comrade Litvinov battled from the first for Mr. Cox, battled again for the tariff proposal made last week by Mr. Hull (see p. 17). Even the British Government, Tory-dominated...