Word: combativeness
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...Labor in the person of C. I. O.'s John Lewis identified conscription with dictatorship ("Democracy must offer its own way of life to combat the forces which imperil civilization today"). Caught between his instinct to oppose John Lewis and his aversion to any politically uncertain controversy. A. F. of L.'s William Green hesitated, finally came out against compulsory training until it becomes "necessary to defend, protect and preserve America...
Summoned before a London tribunal, Conscientious Objector Frederick Stephen Temple, nephew of the Archbishop of York, was exempted from combat service on religious grounds. Quaker Temple, an ambulance driver in Norway and Finland, desired to remain with his unit for the duration of World...
...collapse. Until he exhausted this shirt-sleeve diplomacy in Havana, wise men did not entirely discount U. S. hopes for: 1) some sort of Pan-American "collective trusteeship" over French, Dutch, perhaps British possessions in Latin America; 2) at least a start toward a Hemisphere trade cartel, wherewith to combat Nazi commercial and political fifth columny; 3) military cooperation, when & if necessary...
...transportation, traffic, is accountable for all Army property. All this is right up the professional alley of Dick Moore, who has been a supervising engineer on the U. S.'s great rivers, had a detail to Peru with the United States Naval Mission in 1928-30, commanded combat engineers and headed up the Atlantic Sector of the Canal Zone. A general officer since 1938, he was in command of the 18th Infantry Brigade in the Zone when George Marshall tapped...
Died. Dr. Sigard Adolphus Knopf, 82, internationally famed authority on tuberculosis; in Manhattan. His Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses and How to Combat It, first published in 1900, has since been translated into thirty languages...