Word: combating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China's international boycott was what tiny Japanese delegate Kenkichi Yoshi-zawa (who puffs huge cigars) had in mind when he told the League Council in Geneva last week that Japan demands?as her chief condition for withdrawing Japanese troops from Manchuria?that China's Government actively combat all Anti-Japanese demonstrations by Chinese (see p. 16). Shot back Chinese Delegate Dr. Alfred Sze in the general direction of Mr. Yoshizawa's aromatic stogie...
...move to make football combat Depression reached official status last week when Owen D. Young, chairman of the President's committee to mobilize relief resources, asked all U. S. football-playing colleges to devote the receipts of one game, regular or postseason, to unemployment relief. In the East, two football "tournaments" were organized...
...inability of American students to combat the wily politician is shown by the case with which the Indian attack was thrown off. The School Board has carefully postponed its next meeting until the day after the Christmas holidays begin...
...much more than a politician since he must remain in accord with the state board that forced Dr. C. C. Little to resign. It is therefore easy to see how these outspoken and iconoclastic comments might have disturbed his dignity. But he found the right method of combat. He merely withdrew the 900 subscriptions to the daily which the University purchases for its faculty members...
...were made to defeat and convince all-comers. Within a year Harvey had sold 1,000,000 copies of his pamphlet to debt-ridden farmers who supposed the interviews to be authentic. "Coin's Financial School" created such a stir that parades were held in the East to combat its heterodox influence. It was upon this silver issue, as popularized by Harvey, that William Jennings Bryan was nominated and defeated for the Presidency in 1896. Harvey worshipped Bryan, stumped the Midwest for him, antagonized good Democratic audiences by going wildly off the silver track. So important had Harvey become...