Word: combativeness
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...Combat demagogues with demogoguery" is a political axiom which the intelligent portion of this country has long neglected. Amused by the obvious imbecility of Long, Coughlin, or Townsend, yet considerably frightened by the tremendous effect of these orators on what they consider "the people of no importance," the intelligentsia have not departed from time-honored tactics. Yet these tactics have failed. No longer can a man be laughed out of existence when he holds the secret to Kingdom Come for the common people...
...Commissar rattled off that since 1930 the Red Navy has been increased 435%; Red machine guns 215% for infantry and cavalry, 700% for planes and tanks; Red light tanks 760%; medium tanks 792%; heavy artillery 210%. Finally the Red Air Force has been increased 330%, the average speed of combat planes doubled, average cruising range tripled...
According to belated government press handouts the hush-hush Opera conclave had three objectives: 1) to combat a lying press campaign against Germany which Herr Hitler believed was being launched abroad; 2) to reassure citizens of the Saar that Germany is the ideal country for them to join; 3) to flabbergast the world with a fresh, monster demonstration of German loyalty to the Realmleader. After Orator Hitler's speech, according to the State's handout, "he was rewarded with spontaneous applause. One might well say that surely treason does not lurk about him. Only loyalty stands watch over...
...Force will be greater mobility and striking power. The Force will be divided into three "wings"-Atlantic Wing, with headquarters at Langley Field, Va.; Pacific Wing, at Hamilton Field, Calif., and Southern Wing, at Fort Crockett, Tex. (later to be moved to Barksdale Field, La.). A highly centralized combat unit of nearly 1,000 planes, the GHQ Air Force was officially regarded last week as the greatest move since the War in the modernization of U. S. military forces...
...landscape of West Branch, Iowa (FORTUNE, Aug. 1932) got the birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from a "Colonial attitude" to Europe, a feeling of cultural dependence upon the older continent. To combat this attitude Wood hose irony. His American Gothic (see reproduction) and his spectacular Daughters of Revolution, three prim spinsters against a background of Washington grossing the Delaware, were his first attack. This year, what most critics consider his most important painting. Dinner 'or Threshers (see reproduction), won no prize...