Word: attack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey City. Anyone the Mayor considers undesirable is simply bundled out of town, and for years Arthur Garfield Hays has been battling for the "Constitutional right of every American to be arrested." Last week in Manhattan several days before the great rally, while Mr. Hays was delivering a radio attack on Mayor Hague over station WEVD, an unidentified young woman, passing as a reporter, slipped into the studio. Edging up to the speaker, she hurled a handful of pepper into Mr. Hays's face (see cut, p. 20). "You lie, goddam you," she shouted into the microphone and fled...
Germany was vexed by President Roosevelt's attack on dictatorships in his opening message to Congress. So last week Der Angriff, organ of the regimented German Labor Front, solemnly reported in a dispatch from the U. S.: "Lack of officially organized aid for the needy has resulted in frightful misery. In Cleveland 65,000 are in dire need. Numerous hungry persons sit crying, often with small children, in the municipal welfare bureaus begging for food...
Next Japanese objective was another so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The first, an impressive array of cement pillbox forts strung across the Yangtze delta back of Shanghai, was supposed to defend Nanking, but the defenders simply fled, not waiting to be attacked (TIME, Nov. 29). This Hindenburg Line, much more heavily fortified and built under German military engineers during the past six years, was constructed to resist an attack from the north at just about the point the Japanese have reached this week, a few miles north of Suchow. But now, if the Japanese cannot take it from the north...
...planes flown by expert Soviet pilots had arrived to protect them. The Russian aces, large, square-headed fellows of the surly, close-mouthed type seen in Leftist Spain, kept rigidly to themselves, but Chinese never doubted they would go up and do battle at the first Japanese air attack...
With Cox leading the attack with a goal and a pair of assists, the Freshman six blanked Milton...