Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Cain wanted to attack the appointment of a fellow Washingtonian, Truman Crony Mon C. Wallgren, as chairman of the vital National Security Resources Board. Cain talked for more than six hours, scratching under his arms, hitching at his trousers, sipping milk and raising one foot after the other so that his male secretary could change his shoes. Mrs. Cain, who has filed a suit for divorce, sat in the gallery the whole time, watching her husband admiringly...
...neutrals formed the Paris Citizens' League and signed up 1,200 members determined to get to the root of the trouble. The League disavowed any intention of strikebreaking, but its sponsor, the Board of Trade, bought a full page in the Paris weekly Star (circ. 1,700) to attack the union leadership as Communist. The League recalled that Kent Rowley, Canadian boss of the United Textile Workers, was interned under the defense-of-Canada regulations in 1940 and released in 1942. Although the Paris local's bylaws called for a two-thirds vote before a strike could...
With the help of Dick Merriman, second string All-American from Williams last year, who is the freshman coach and has been helping out with the varsity attack men, Munro has screened the varsity tryouts into "listed" and "non-listed" squads, preparatory to selecting the twenty men who will make the Spring trip...
...finally Munro has been nervously eyeing the team for weaknesses, shifting men to new positions before the lines begin to work as units. Already last year's captain Hans Estin has been moved from attack to midfield...
...Attack--first string: Rick Hudner, high scorer up from the Freshmen; Lew Soule, who didn't play lacrosse last spring; and Dick. Bezanson, perennial high-scoring creasemen. Second string: Dick Post and Bill Plissner, from the Freshmen; and Charlie Gregg; lettermen last year...