Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewdly President Roosevelt let others launch his attack on oligopoly, dispatching lieutenants to rostrum and microphone. Politicians suspected that all this was a build-up for a similar attack of his own. presumably to be delivered in his Jackson Day dinner speech this coming week. Opening shot was fired in a broadcast last fortnight by another Jackson, who happens to be head of the Department of Justice's anti-trust division-Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout J ackson. Bob Jackson, who is reputedly being groomed as the next Democratic Governor of New York State, last week followed his first...
...leading wealthy political intrigant, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha. His private army & political storm troops are the famed "Greenshirts." veterans of scores of street scuffles with the "Blueshirts," who are the private army of the Wafd. Outgoing Premier El Nahas not long ago ordered the Greenshirts dissolved, blaming them for an attack on his life; incoming Premier Mahmoud last week dissolved not only the El Nahas Blueshirts but all Egyptian "shirts"'-apparently thinking he and King Farouk could rely on the Army...
Died. Harold Russell ("Night") Ryder, 42, onetime self-styled "Brightest young man in Wall Street," twice sentenced to prison on grand larceny charges growing out of stock manipulations; of a heart attack, while waiting for a thorough prison physical examination; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y. In 1930 an investigation of Woody & Co., his stock firm, led to his first arrest...
They attest to a brilliant sun that glinted off the dazzling white of the Panay's squat hull. They show that the attack was methodical, crafty, well-aimed. Because the cameramen (Universal's Norman Alley, Movietone's Eric Mayell) stayed on the Panay to take shots of the wreckage, they missed the machine-gunning from the air of the first boatload of survivors to head for shore, an attack that killed two already wounded seamen. The boat, holes torn in its planking by bullets, was filmed later. Because the cameramen buried their equipment in the mud when...
...headline standards, important by history's. Limited by the necessity of keeping under cover, Mayell's camera watches bombs landing around the nearby Standard Oil boats, sees a fallen Panay seaman being hauled to a hatchway. Alley's lens catches a Japanese plane diving to attack, while squinting gunners, one trouserless (see cut), try to stem the attack with antiquated 1917 Lewis machine guns. Both cameras show the crew running to emergency posts at the start of the raid, both film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving the ship, peer into the gaping holes in the Panay...