Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grueling debate, passage in the Senate was already assured. The climax had come at exactly 5:05 p.m. the day before, when Ohio's Senator Robert Taft planted his feet squarely behind his Senate desk, thrust both thumbs into his pants pockets, and launched into a 90-minute attack on ERP's most vulnerable point: its size...
Challenge. In flat, precise tones Bob Taft methodically marshaled his arguments. ERP, said Taft, could never be justified on purely economic grounds. Neither was it "aimed at opposing any Communistic military attack." The only use that Taft could see for it was as a weapon "against the advance of Communist ideology throughout the world." For that reason, Taft was prepared to vote for it. But he warned that the initial outlay asked by the Administration might cause serious trouble in the U.S. economy. He urged that the figure for the first twelve months be sliced from $5.3 billion...
Harlow Shapley, Director of the College Observatory, last night made an off-the-record attack on the Thomas Un-American Activities Committee in a speech sponsored by the American Association of Scientific Workers and the Association of Cambridge Scientists. After the speech, a petition strongly attaching the Committee's action in the Condon case was circulated...
Monday quarterbacks have been regretting that Eisenhower's armies did not attack Hitler through the Balkans instead of in France. Had the Western powers occupied southeastern Europe, containment of Russia would now be that much farther along. The fact is forgotten that by stabbing as they did, directly at the heart of Hitler's power, the West got a prize far more important than the Balkans. It got the Ruhr...
...Geography was ever desperately needed, it is needed now," Erwin Raisz, lecturer on Geographical Exploration, declared over the weekend in the first phase of a student-faculty counter-attack on the University's recent abolition of Geography as a field of concentration...