Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer personally "struck" from the sea. As if playing at naval conquest, he traveled to Memel on the pocket battleship Deutschland, followed by 60 other fighting vessels including two battleships, three cruisers, two destroyer flotillas, three torpedo-boat flotillas, numerous small craft. In the face of this attack the Lithuanian Navy, consisting of one 22-year-old, 500-ton patrol ship (a rebuilt German minesweeper), which mounts two three-inch guns and three machine guns, puffed out to sea for destination unknown, as homeless as the Flying Dutchman. Herr Hitler had won his first naval battle. The victory was consolidated...
Skip Stahley, expressing optimism in spite of his squad's luck of outdoor practice, has chosen a tentative lineup, which includes George Hanford at goal; Ralph Livingston, point; Ben Wilcox, coverpoint; Norm Blotner, first defense; Jim Doughty, second defense, Jess Willard, center; Pete Zouck, second attack; Doug Anderson, first attack; Hank Ricckeu, out home; and Captain Phil Hammond at in home...
...should like to protest against the ridiculous review of the latest Hasty Pudding show which obviously served merely as the basis for a personal attack on its director. The entire review is full of contradictions which are caused, it would seem, by a desire to twist it into such an attack. The "artistry" has been successful, but the "art" has gone "too far for its own good." The "body" of the play is "Too beautiful" but the "book" is poor. By means of such contradictions, after one has read the entire review and learned that in nearly all respects...
Died. Frank Dwight Fitzgerald, 54, Governor of Michigan, who last fall defeated for re-election Franklin Roosevelt's great & good friend, Frank Murphy; of a heart attack following influenza; in Grand Ledge, Mich...
Died. Barren Gift Collier, 65, philosopher ("Barren Collier says"), hotelman, realtor, world's No. 1 streetcar-card adman, whose company's posters are said to be seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933, Barren Collier, always a big-time speculator, announced he was broke, declared a moratorium, became the first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the amendment to the bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed day before he left office...