Word: combativeness
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...clearcut Wet stand (TIME, May 26) would make him a prime U. S. anti-Prohibition leader in Congress, waged a win-or-die fight for his biggest opponent, roused Protestant ministers and Y. M. C. A. men, made much of President Hoover's friendship for Representative Fort. To combat this, Senator David Baird Jr. announced: "I am able to assure you that President Hoover himself is intensely interested in seeing New Jersey send Dwight Morrow to the Senate." This drew from the White House a reiteration of its neutrality in primary elections...
...capitals of Europe, South America, Australia swarmed with angry activity which had its repercussions in Washington. Parliaments and ministers talked of retaliatory legislation against the U. S. All discussed an international trade alliance to combat U. S. protectionism. All feared that the U. S., greatest producer of comestibles, motors, radios and whatnot, not only would not buy in their markets, but would flood them with vast surplus stocks, bringing about a world panic...
Chicago's "Secret Six" under Col. Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Association of Commerce, met with 48 business leaders last week, increased its subsidiary finance committee from nine to 16 members, obtained pledges of $500,000 to combat crime, hoped to obtain...
...Government of the revolutionary doctrines favored by this 0.13% of the nation's electorate. The first week's hearings began with a lesson in the generalities of Communism and concluded with an adroit plea from the American Federation of Labor for stronger Unionism to combat U. S. S. R. theories. No "Reds" were yet hunted by name and deed...
...court. A detective, whose testimony was substantiated by three patrolmen, said that she had accepted $30 from him in a Manhattan hotel. Following a sentence of one day in jail, her inimical stepson Producer Arthur Hammerstein offered her $50 to be "decent" and clubwomen began raising a fund to combat the "double standard'' in prostitution cases...