Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utter Caddishness Sirs: I read with surprise in your current number, which lies before me, in a footnote on page 18, a most uncalled for and venomous attack on the members of various London clubs which I note are carefully not mentioned by name. That the editor of a paper to which I have for some time subscribed should lower his magazine by allowing some member of his staff to vent his jealousy and malice on men, who, being unnamed, cannot defend themselves ... is inconceivable. If the writer of this paragraph is not a hypocrite, who is? Such sickening cant...
...Ministry of the Interior, sent in his card. It was returned with the message that he would not be received. Hurrying on to a police station, Punica Ratchitch gave himself up. "I shot in self defense at the men I killed," he said, "I thought they were going to attack me. As for Stefan Raditch, I have always worked for the interest of the electorate and the King. I am sorry that I shall be unable to serve so well in future. I am ready to be taken out immediately and shot without trial. I have fulfilled my mission...
...Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. This year the keynote speech of Claude Gernade Bowers, historian and editorial writer for the New York Evening World, was awaited with more than usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation in the bosoms of embattled Democrats. He was expected to eschew political pap, offer a program of progress...
Died. Franklin Duane, 65, great grandson of Benjamin Franklin; of a heart attack; at his 45th reunion at Princeton University. Two days before, Robert Wilson Patterson Jr., of the class of 1913, was struck by lightning, at Princeton...
Fourteen "Yesses." With kinetic directness the Council moved to attack the Vilna question-unsolved for the past eight years...