Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three-Way Attack. Then the President switched themes. He proposed an assault on the inflationary spiral from three sides. To relieve the inflationary pressure of too much loose cash, he asked that consumer credit controls (abandoned Nov. 1) be restored, that speculation on the commodity exchanges be limited, and that savings be increased. To channel scarce goods into essential uses, he wanted authority to control inventories and to allocate such essentials as steel and grain...
...Congressmen had stopped applauding; most sat in stony silence. Senator Bob Taft clamped his jaws until the muscles bulged. Even if G.O.P. congressmen could bring themselves to accept Harry Truman's first two methods of attack, they could never agree to his third. Despite his avowed opposition to all controls as the methods of a police state (TIME, Oct. 27), the President now wanted power...
English Lesson. When British Delegate J. B. Priestley joined the attack on the U.S., Delegate Free slapped down a copy of UNESCO's constitution, reminded him that one of its first points was a free press. Priestley, red-faced with Yorkshire wrath, roared: "I do not believe that a representative of the United Kingdom, in matters of freedom of expression, needs to receive lessons. ... I assure the delegate that I can read the English language as well...
Government newspapers continued to attack the U.S. and its press, but spring fever obviously afflicted the editorial writers. La Epoca referred to "the New York newspaper, the Washington Post"; another sheet, with an equally fine disregard of the facts, damned the United Press, "whose figureheads called Roy, Scripp and Howard, also direct the New York Post, the Nation, and the New York Journal-American...
...other faiths which are not Catholic enjoy liberty in Spain. . . ." Said the letter of protest: "It is evident that the chapels about which the Chief of State spoke . . . constitute public exercises of cult, against the letter and spirit of the formula accepted by Rome. . . . These facts constitute a new attack on Catholic unity. The argument given that these declarations are necessary because of the campaign abroad by elements opposed to our country must be rejected. It is not admissible that political tolerance can be bought by religious tolerance. If this principle is admitted, concession after concession would be made until...