Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have reason to believe that an assault is being made by secret means, supported by the resources of a great empire, aimed at the destruction of our system of government. . . . The Federal Govern- ment has no police force available for our protection. ... A force ought to be provided...
...Excerpts : "The Amsterdam News is able to present this picture of the type of United States citizens whose words are law in Texas and other parts of the South. Mrs. W. G. Skinner, photographed above with her husband and two-year-old child, accused Henry Argo of attempting criminal assault upon her, for which 'accusation' Argo was fired on by members of a mob . . . and stabbed by Skinner. . . . An investigator later disclosed the fact that Argo was accused by the woman because he repulsed an attack by the Skinner's dog while he was fishing...
...professor" was Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth, who teaches geology at Zurich, but now leads a mountain climbing party which will soon assault Kanchenjunga. Himalayan peak never scaled by man. The monastery (itself three weeks by trek from the nearest white men at Darjeeling, India) was their last stop ping point before establishing their camp on Kanchenjunga's base, some three miles above sea level...
...Keefe, a seventeen-year old freshman of Trinity College, has been suspended from the college for what the authorities call "a violation of rules regarding drinking." Discounting the indefinite phrasing of the charge, which might cover anything from sipping a cocktail to climaxing an evening of drunken driving, assault and battery, and window smashing by setting fire to the college chapel in a fit of alcoholic pique, O'Keefe's suspension brings into the limelight one of the most disturbing aspects of Prohibition as it relates to the American college...
Felonious Assault...