Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Chicago in two buildings of Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (contact points) 63 sit-downers who had previously repulsed an assault by 125 deputy sheriffs (TIME, March 1) were suddenly awakened at 5:15 a. m. by a bombardment of gas shells and grenades. Looking out they beheld a strange object, a 20-ft. wooden tower erected on the rear end of a truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their...
...quality of the reviewing is high, although perhaps the amount--particularly of the dramatic criticism--is disproportionate to the interest of the reader or the purpose of the magazine. Mr. Schlesinger is a little intemperate in his assault upon "The Flowering of New England", but rewardingly vigorous and perceptive...
...will talk lightly of the dignity of the bench. We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the Judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution. I do not want to see any direct assault upon the courts, nor do I want to see any indirect assaults upon the courts...
Proving that cinematic realism is an international language, Director Fritz Lang, an Austrian, gets an extraordinary authenticity of color into his quick episodic treatment of the life and love of Eddie Taylor. Many scenes, momentary on the screen, are hard to forget: the assault of a bank truck on a rainy day by a bandit with tear-gas bombs; the warped, animal hatred of the crowd watching Eddie being taken from the courtroom; the bullfrogs croaking in the pond outside the little inn from which, upon his wedding night, he is tossed out for being an ex-convict; a demonstration...
Doctors attributed leukaemia, a rare blood disease, as the cause of death. This disease had no connection with the injuries received in the assault...