Word: combativeness
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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...
...full and a mandamus action to compel a public hearing. Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury sent congratulations, said Dr. Uhler was lucky to escape "servitude in such a hole." Said Dr. Uhler: "I realize that behind -my dismissal there are sinister and powerful influences, difficult to combat. ... I feel like one of the witches bound at the stake in Salem...
...disabled plane and lets it drop slowly. The pilot jumps from the cockpit (forward of the cabin) with his own 'chute while the remainder of the ship crashes. At Wright Field (Dayton, Ohio) the plan is being tested with a glider carried aloft by an Army combat plane...
...great was his prestige that when, in 1917 he became head of an advisory board of civilian inventors to meet conditions of warfare on land and sea, it was confidently expected that he would find a way rendering enemy submarines harmless. Inventor Edison was still pondering ways to combat submarines when the war ended...