Word: warriorism
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...Octogenarian Bradley it was an elixir. Winner of four Kentucky Derbies, he has been living for the day when his green & white silks will again "get there the quickest," and thereby establish a record not likely to be broken. In Bimelech, whom he named after the Biblical warrior, Abimelech (dropping the A because it is an old Bradley custom to B-name all horses), Colonel Bradley has great faith...
...this point the Reynaud-Chamberlain mob, whose guts Mussolini despises, got tired of greasing Italy with talk about cooperation and compromise in the Mediterranean. In Sheffield one of Neville ("Hardware") Chamberlain's most formidable torpedoes, Economic Warrior Ronald Cross, turned on the heat. "We are plain-dealing and plain-speaking people," he said, "and we should like to know where we stand with Italy." If Italy is neutral, said he flatly, she will have to act like...
...return for the $19,500,000 cost in public funds (1935) of the Mississippi, Warrior and Illinois River systems (said the Eastman report), barge routes saved shippers less than $7,000,000. Last week the Senate-House conference committee agreed to report out the Wheeler-Lea bill, which would put inland water transportation under ICC control...
...until in desperation they begin to use their stored materials in some sort of action. There were even rumors that in case Parliament got out of hand President Lebrun might call Marshal Petain, now French Ambassador in Madrid, to form a Cabinet. In every recent French crisis the old warrior, strictly nonpolitical, has been thought of as a possible Savior...
...last week Benito Mussolini was a thoroughly disillusioned warrior. The first step in the process of his disappointment was the frenzied joy with which Italians greeted him back from Munich-a far more spontaneous ovation than any military triumph had ever earned him. On the Piazza Venezia balcony that day he made no martial speech, but said only: "You wanted peace. I have brought you peace," then turned gloomily and went indoors. Next came the German-Russian Pact, which he was not told about until the last minute and which at one slap put down any extravagant hopes Il Duce...