Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secured the adoption of the Hoch amendment, though the Constitution had specifically designated "persons," not citizens, as the basis for Congressional representation. Said New York's Congressman O'Connor: "It's a wonder to me that any self-respecting alien stays in this country." But the assault of the South and the West provoked a counter attack from the North and the East. Up rose Representative George Holden Tinkham, Massachusetts Republican, to offer another amendment providing that States which disfranchised citizens should have their Congressional representation reduced. This amendment was aimed directly at the Southern States where...
...Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot at the U. S. Navy's one and only big dirigible. Carpenter Merton Hankins, the lilliputian gunner, was arrested. Last week he was tried for assault with attempt to kill...
...jury found Merton Hankins not guilty of assault, evidently because his reputation as a larkster was well established. Two years ago, when the Flatbrook Valley Club refused to let him fish in its privately stocked trout pools, near Newton, N. J., Jokester Hankins opened the dam, let out the water, killed most of the fish. For that he was fined...
Most spectacular of the air maneuvers was the Blue raid on the Red army supply base at Columbus. Fifteen giant bombing planes screened by 15 pursuit craft and preceded by 18 attack planes executed this theoretical destruction. In a 100-second diving assault the attack planes delivered an effective fire equal to an infantry division of 30,000 men supported by divisional artillery. The Red defense, surprised, was unable to down a single bomber. Later in the day, a combined Blue and Red air force thrice circled Cincinnati, theoretically dropped hundreds of bombs, wiped...
Accustomed to Coventry but not to assault, the little theatre will probably adopt a permanent policy of tweaking august official beards. Such irreverence is art for the sake...