Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee. After long weeks of probing and the expenditure of $54,000 (out of $80,000 appropriated), the Committee came out with little more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends in power" speech "unfortunate." The election of no Senator was impugned and Senators Barkley of Kentucky and Stewart of Tennessee were described as ignorant of the WPA pressurizing in their behalf...
...Paul and William shinnied up a drainpipe to a window ledge. Windows were locked on the first story. Up they climbed to the second, crawled around the ledge until they found a window open. Past a guard (reading a newspaper), through attack-proof steel doors (ajar), into a room full of copper sheets (pennies in the raw), they tiptoed. One of them knocked a wrench clattering from a chair, but no guards came running. They took some copper clippings ($1.50 worth), tiptoed back to their window, threw the copper to the ground, departed as they had come...
...Orleans' Sugar Bowl, undefeated, untied Texas Christian, generally considered the No. 1 football team of 1938, pitted its famed passing attack against the aggressive line play of once-defeated (by Notre Dame) Carnegie Tech. At half-time it looked as if Texas Christian's little Davey O'Brien, most sensational footballer of the year (he completed 93 out of 167 passes), might become the disappointment of the finale. The Scoreboard read Carnegie Tech 7, Texas Christian 6- because little Davey had failed to kick the extra point. But in the second half, Quarterback O'Brien resumed...
WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt's attack on "tweedle-dum" Democrats, delivered at the $100-a-plate Jackson Day Dinner last night, infuriated party conservatives who predicted tonight, that it will increase and solidify Congressional opposition to drastic New Deal reforms...
...Crimson held their own until the close of the first half when the Tufts five broke a 13 to 13 deadlock and spurted on to gain a 22 to 15 lead at halftime. After that the Freshman fell behind as their defense folded up before the deliberate attack of the home team...