Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where It Belongs. In the House, the Truman forces made a flank attack on the powerful old Rules Committee. The committee is the House's traffic cop, assigning right of way to all legislation moving through the House. Dominated by a crusty alliance of Republican and Southern Democratic members, it had often muzzled New Deal legislation when its job was simply to monitor...
...America's own U.S. military machine, Forrestal said it badly needed cranking up. True, the U.S. did hold a "fair margin of superiority" on virtually every technical weapon. But even the atom bomb was neither sufficient to prevent attack, nor enough to insure victory after attack. Any war would require the best combined efforts of the Army, Navy and Air Force. And Jim Forrestal reported frankly that, after 15 months of "unification," they were a long way from being unified...
...bang. As celebrants of the foreign colony danced the New Year in at seaside hotels, two Egyptian corvettes, which had slipped up the coast in the dark, opened fire on the city. Israeli shore batteries fired back. A quarter of an hour later, as Israeli planes roared out to attack, the corvettes slunk off to the south...
Lyons charged the Chicago paper with indiscriminate reporting and distorted stories. He challenged the right of the Tribune to attack the Americanism of Harvard and Dartmouth, when during the war President Conant directed the Atomic research, and Dartmouth's President John Sloan Dickey served with the state department...
Died. Dr. Hugh Smith Cumming, 79, lanky, longtime Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service (1920-36); of a heart attack; in Washington. Dr. Cumming helped set up the national leprosarium in 1921 at Carville, La., also was responsible for establishing the Government's two rehabilitation farms for narcotic addicts...