Word: united
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union leaped to the platform, with a pack of Communist sympathizers, took over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters voted down the anti-Communist resolution, yelled recriminations at those who objected, elected Leftist Congressman Vito Marcantonio chairman of their rump unit. Mr. Marcantonio declined, but he sideswiped the purgers as actors "playing the role of international statesmen. They should go back to ringing doorbells and climbing stairs to get out the vote...
...First Minnesota Regiment-strong, nice boys, but gun fodder-went into the Battle of Gettysburg 262 strong. The carnage was cruel: to 85% came death or wounds. But at no time in the Civil War did any unit of more than 1,000 men suffer higher than 20% casualties. That was when war was still in the mule and carbine stage. But changes in war technique have not changed an old military axiom: you cannot expect a unit which has lost more than one man in five to continue effective. It must be withdrawn from action, given two months...
...beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with his blue-frocked bride. The ceremony was followed by a large buffet luncheon party at Admiralty House, complete with dukes and duchesses, where Winston downed two goblets of champagne, munched ice cream, commented lugubriously: "We must eat, we must...
...there is one quality in which Williams has a surplus it is that very experience which Harvard lacks. The Purple forward line is playing as a unit for the second straight year and is likely to cause trouble in the Crimson backfield, weakest link in the team...
WASHINGTON--Martin Chancey, secretary of the local unit of the Communist Party, asked Attorney-General Frank Murphy today to investigate the "lawless, terroristic and dishonest," actions of the Dies Committee...