Word: attacke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While these major decisions waited, the President closeted himself in the White House, free of callers, to attack his backlog of other urgent business. He signed without ceremony the $350 million foreign relief bill. He had a long talk with the members of his commission to study universal military training, spent most of one day reading their report (see above...
...story unfolded by Government witnesses picked up where the Senate's war investigating committee left off last summer (TIME, July 15 et seq.), when Andy May rushed home with a heart attack. The Government's case made Andy out an industrious genius at the art of exerting Congressional pressure. Nothing was too much trouble...
...thought of another year as principal of the Hope (Ind.) High School was just about all that husky, greying Maridieth Little could bear. A month ago, he had suffered a heart attack, but it was not just his heart that made him hesitate about going back; it was the way the U.S. school, its pupils and its teachers had developed over the years. Last week, 51-year-old Maridieth Little, a high-school teacher for 17 years, a principal for another 16, gave details...
Died. Jimmie Wilson, 46, one of baseball's topflight catchers, who rip-roared to fame with the St. Louis Cardinals' "Gas House Gang"; of a heart attack; in Bradenton, Fla., where he had retired to his fruit plantation. Wilson had a nightcap of glory in the 1940 World Series as coach of the Cincinnati Reds; at 40, he hauled on his catcher's harness, helped the Reds win the series victory...
Died. Williamson S. Howell Jr., 54, wealthy Texas attorney-businessman; of a heart attack half an hour before his scheduled departure for his new post as U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay:* in Bryan...