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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated that "there is still no gas yet devised which can penetrate in lethal quantities the U.S. Army gas mask of 1921." And if such a gas were to appear, an antidote mask would follow on its heels. Current wars are daily proving that bombing raids only serve to strengthen the morale they attempt to crush and that the enemy's armies, not his cities, are war objectives. The next Great War may be greater in scope than history has ever seen, but it will be won, like all the wars of history, by the infantry. And civilization will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMA VIRUMQUE | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Kirkland came out after the half determined to strengthen its lead, which it proceeded to do by utilizing the Old Faithful running combination of McClure, Foster, and Moore. Cracking off 5, 7, 15, and 20 yards at a time, the Deacon backs brought the oval quickly up the field. The blocking given McClure by Dave Grey, Al Silverberg, Earl Foster, and Moore was superb...

Author: By J. PHILIP Lyford, | Title: Kirkland Steamrollers Eli Champions, 18-0 | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

...rest of the votors who switched from the Democratic to the Republican side may have done so either because disgusted with the recent course of the New Deal or because disappointed with the failure of the administration attempts in the recent primaries to strengthen its grip on the Democratic party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Holcombe Finds Republican Election Comeback Nothing but a 'Normal Political Phenomenon' at Mid-Term | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

...place is only an I.O.U. Unless the law is changed, when the time comes to start paying you a pension the Treasury will be required either to default or to tax you and the remainder of the country to get the money. . . . Instead of weakening Social Security, Republicans will strengthen it . . . put a firm foundation under that column of the temple of social justice, now falling down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Compressed Air | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The United States will use the forthcoming Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru, as a forum to combat the spread of fascist and Nazi influence in Latin America through the initiation of one of the greatest campaigns to strengthen democracy in the world's history, it was indicated tonight...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

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