Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been unmercifully berated by his opponents; like them also, he has had his fair share of shouting supporters. Last week in the House New York's fire-eating little Representative Loring Black voiced the extreme Democratic view when he declared: "The outstanding accomplishment of this Administration was a successful assault on Webster's dictionary. ... As Lincoln split rails, Hoover split hairs. . . . He would make mad faces at Congress and then send [Secretary] Walter Newton over to say he didn't mean it. ... He compromised everything, the country, Congress, his party and himself. For a while the people thought the seat...
...James Rahl; he was serving a process in a fight-promoter's suit for some of Schmeling's winnings, a suit later dropped. But James Rahl's father had Fighter Schmeling arrested while he was playing golf on a New Jersey course, charging assault and asking $35,000 damages...
...ordinary or extraordinary, has girded himself for battle, assumed an expression of dogged determination, announced to his confreres of the city room or feature staff that he was "gunning for Lowell," going to get that interview at last which had been denied so many for so long. But the assault has ever petered out without reaching its objective, and so when it was revealed that, in addition to the masters of the first two Houses and News Office Director Lamb, the president himself would receive the press representatives he has so diligently eluded throughout all the years of his administration...
Vainly the accused pleaded that they had committed only "simple assault and battery." The court held that their motive was "race hatred," that they would not have assaulted the waiter had he been white...
...thought he had fainted from what he had learned inside. A cry went up. About 75 Fairmounters and Marionites, apparently equipped for the purpose, started a two-sided, business-like assault on the gaol. They battered down door after door, arrived at the bullpen where many Negroes huddled, praying. They stripped Thomas Shipp, dragged him out to the jail yard, strung him to a windowbar until he was dead, lynchee No. 10 of the year. They bashed Abe Smith unconscious with a sledgehammer, let women trample & scratch him, carried him a block away and hung him to a maple...