Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's end that rule was still unbroken, but plenty was happening on both sides to keep correspondents busy. Madrid observers reported that masses of troops and a dusty serpent of nearly 1,000 motor trucks were climbing the ridges, moving north for a final assault on Santander, last important stronghold of the starving Basque defenders of Bilbao...
Quickly correspondents in Loyalist Spain translated this as an admission that the potent Rightist assault against Madrid of fortnight ago had broken down. For many weeks they have been aware that the Italian and German advisers of Generalissimo Franco, gathering daily in the heavily guarded headquarters directly opposite the west door of Salamanca Cathedral, have advocated two different plans of campaign for the remainder of the summer. Basically the German scheme was to immunize every front but Madrid, try to lure the Leftists into one more half baked offensive, always fruitful of casualties, and then mass every available man from...
...last week another gun and two old associates of Elliott Speer once more surrounded quiet Mount Hermon with an incongruous criminological atmosphere, provided it with a second mystery. In Superior Court at nearby Greenfield, Mount Hermon's retired Dean Thomas Edwin Elder, 55, was on trial for assault by gun on Mount Hermon's retired cashier Stephen Allen Norton...
...find that the provocation for the police assault did not go beyond abusive language and the throwing of isolated missiles. . . . From all the evidence we think it plain that the force employed by the police was far in excess of that which the occasion required...
...John T. Lythgoe, who live next door, ran out to see what was wrong. In the argument that followed, someone felled Mr. Lythgoe with a black jack, Hiram Dempsey got a black eye, Mrs. Lythgoe was hit by what she thought was Hiram Dempsey's fist. Jailed for assault & battery, Hiram Dempsey next day proudly exhibited a telegram from his famed son, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "Congratulations to the new champ stop consider matching you with Joe Louis. -. ." Ill lay: Onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, of a slight cerebral thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs...