Word: combativeness
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...twelfth agreement between the U. S. and a foreign nation to combat liquor smuggling, and thus bolster up the Volstead Act, was reached last week when Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, recently arrived Spanish Ambassador, exchanged solemn pacts. Similar agreements are now in force with Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Sweden. Treaties are pending with Belgium and France...
Roland H. Hartley, lumber-mag-rate, Governor of Washington: "To combat the recall movement (TIME, Nov. 1) started against me by friends of Dr. Henry Suzzallo, whom I had ousted as president of the University of Washington, I recently commenced publication of a little magazine called Hartley's Weekly. But I still am not without troubles. The other day, when walking past a high school building near the capitol, I heard a downy-cheeked, 14-year-old lad yell: 'There goes old Hartley-he's going to get it in the neck when the recall comes...
...Party', are in possession of nearly a third of China. They have succeeded more than any previous ruling group in subordinating the military to the civil departments. Their general, Chiang Kai-shek has proved himself a tactician and politician of rare ability. He has unified a 'solid South' to combat the Northern militarists and to espouse the cause of reform...
...author, Professor of Psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School, declares that much physical ill comes from false thinking--a thesis that he supports with convincing examples. He predicts that the next great task of medicine will be to combat the unsound beliefs that subtly but surely undermine health...
...Interstate Commerce Commission. The Constitution makers were cautiously indefinite about the unknown ground between the powers of the President and Congress. It has always been ground teeming with potential danger, but it only becomes a menace to stable government when a hostile Congress and President square off for violent combat: witness the turbulent administration of Andrew Jackson...