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I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.
Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.
He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at Antietam and was promoted in March 1863 to major general of volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862.
He was wounded in the neck on the second day of Gettysburg and received a brevet promotion to colonel in the regular army for his service.
In 458 BC, the Athenians blockaded the island of Aegina, and simultaneously defended Megara from the Corinthians by sending out an army composed of those too young or old for regular military service.
In spite of its academic nature, the copious details to be found in the treatise rendered it of the highest value to the army organizers of the 16th century, who were engaged in fashioning a regular military system out of the semi-feudal systems of previous generations.
In the 2010 – 11 financial year the army had an average strength of 47, 135 personnel: 30, 235 permanent ( regular ) and 16, 900 active reservists ( part-time ).
In 1989, when the Cold War was coming to its end, the army numbered at least 152, 000 regular troops.
The war between the British and the First French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte stretched around the world and at its peak, in 1813, the regular army contained over 250, 000 men.
The situation has deteriorated since early 2006 and the regular army and the presidential guard regularly execute extortion, torture, killings and other human rights violations.
As of September 2011, the government is attempting to form what is called the Forces Armées Nationales de Côte d ' Ivoire ( FANCI ), which aims to merge 5, 000 former rebels of the FRCI with 30, 000 veterans of the former regular army ( Forces de défense et de sécurité-FDS ).
He was interested in cooperation between the regular army and militia or partisan forces, or citizen soldiers, as one possible — sometimes the only — method of defense.
The Feriale Duranum, probably identical to the festival calendars of every regular army unit, assigns him a sacrifice of a steer on his birthday, the Kalends of August.
Post Civil War, as the volunteer armies disbanded, the regular army cavalry regiments increased in number from six to ten, among them the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment of Little Bighorn fame, and the African-American U. S. 9th Cavalry Regiment and U. S. 10th Cavalry Regiment.
During the English Civil War dragoons were used for a variety of tasks: providing outposts, holding defiles or bridges in the front or rear of the main army, lining hedges or holding enclosures, and providing dismounted musketeers to support regular cavalry.
In the present-day British Army regular army, four regiments are designated as dragoons:
In addition to forging a nation from the splintered regions comprising Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman tried to modernize his kingdom by forging a regular army and the first institutionalized bureaucracy.
Afghan forces achieved success in the initial days of the war, taking the British and Indians by surprise in two main thrusts as the Afghan regular army was joined by large numbers of Pashtun tribesmen from both sides of the border.
* the " Largest Army " Card — having a large army is still an advantage, but does not earn victory points so directly as in the regular version of The Settlers of Catan.
Sieges and land blockades were the most common large-scale operations for the regular army.
In Iraq, the 2007 US " surge " strategy saw the embedding of regular and special forces troops among Iraqi army units.
Scottish urban centres, with their poverty and unemployment were favourite recruiting grounds of the regular British army, and Dundee, where the female dominated jute industry limited male employment had one of the highest proportion of reservists and serving soldiers than almost any other British city.
20, 000 were regular Pakistani soldiers either from the Frontier Corps or army and an estimated 8, 000 were militants recruited in madrassas filling regular Taliban ranks.
" A further 3, 000 fighter of the regular Taliban army were Arab and Central Asian militants.

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This means an added burden to innumerable postmen, who already are complaining of heavy loads and low pay, and it presumably means an increased postal deficit, but, our correspondent writes, think of the additional junk mail each citizen will now be privileged to receive on a regular basis.
If Barnett doesn't call a special session in 1961, it will be the first year in the last decade that the Legislature has not met in regular or special session.
Bus operators will often find it economical to convert retired buses to use as permanent training buses for driver training, rather than taking a regular service bus out of use.
This reform will bring the ratio of regular and part-time personnel of the British Army in-line with US and Canadian allies.
She will be hosting alongside TCM regular, Robert Osborne.
Hume notices that we tend to believe that things behave in a regular manner ; i. e., that patterns in the behaviour of objects will persist into the future, and throughout the unobserved present.
The Washington Redskins, after wearing white exclusively in the ' 80s and ' 90s, including the 1982 NFC Championship Game ( having gone 3 – 0 in them during the regular season, during CBS ' pregame show, Jimmy " The Greek " Snyder actually invoked the blue jerseys in picking Dallas to win the game ), have since 2002 occasionally reverted to using their burgundy jerseys for second-half home games, but will still wear white against the Cowboys.
For example, every polygon is topologically self-dual ( it has the same number of vertices as edges, and these are switched by duality ), but will not in general be geometrically self-dual ( up to rigid motion, for instance ) – regular polygons are geometrically self-dual ( all angles are congruent, as are all edges, so under duality these congruences swap ), but irregular polygons may not be geometrically self-dual.
Using net present value calculators, the financial planner will suggest a combination of asset earmarking and regular savings to be invested in a variety of investments.
On regular lines, at least one train every two hours will call even in the smallest of villages.
This amount of carbohydrate is contained in about 3-4 ounces ( 100-120 ml ) of orange, apple, or grape juice although fruit juices contain a higher proportion of fructose which is more slowly metabolized than pure dextrose, alternatively, about 4-5 ounces ( 120-150 ml ) of regular ( non-diet ) soda may also work, as will about one slice of bread, about 4 crackers, or about 1 serving of most starchy foods.
Reloading may not be cost effective for occasional shooters, as it takes time to recoup the cost of the required equipment, but those who shoot on a regular basis will see benefit as the brass case ( the most expensive component ) can be reused many times ( with proper maintenance ).
In general, the convicts in these wards will be incarcerated for the rest of their lives, although their detention is eligible for regular review by the court.
The regular constructor is called the first time the state for the shared class is initialized through a subclass constructor, and the secondary constructor will be invoked for all other subclasses.
A 50th Anniversary patch will also replace the regular Mets baseball / skyline logo on the left sleeves for 2012.
Unless these instruments are played by members doubling on another instrument ( for example, a trombone player changing to euphonium for a certain passage ), orchestras will use freelance musicians to augment their regular rosters.
Here the most regular of irregularities, i. e., archaisms, will be delineated:
Tarantino regular Samuel L. Jackson will play Stephen, a house slave.
The spectrum of originally featureless light shone through hydrogen will show a signature spectrum specific to hydrogen that has features at regular intervals.
Supposedly, the regular practice of the latihan will enable people to experience positive development in various aspects of their daily life and being.
It was the first of only two times that two teams have played each other in the Super Bowl after playing on the final weekend of the regular season ( the New York Giants and New England Patriots played in the final week of the 2007 regular season and met again in Super Bowl XLII ). Under NFL scheduling rules put in place by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell prior to the 2010 season, the Super Bowl participants will not be able to play each other on the final weekend of the regular season, since all games on the final weekend now match division opponents.
It is estimated that this will give a 20 % lower cost and 20-25 % CO2 emissions reduction compared to if the timber instead would have been transported with regular 60 ton truck combinations.
In Wikipedia, we will use the terms " completely regular " and " Tychonoff " freely, but we'll avoid the less clear " T " terms.

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