Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wright Patman has already put over the Robinson-Patman Act limiting rebate and other chain-store practices. And the steady increase in State chain-store taxes has assumed the shape of a national trend. Two months ago, therefore, A. & P., bull's-eye of Wright Patman's attack, broke its 79-year policy of silence on "public and private questions" with a "Statement of Public Policy" advertised in 1,300 newspapers over the signatures of Brothers George L. and John A. Hartford...
Working with particular emphasis on its passing attack which has not functioned smoothly in the past, the Crimson team has strengthened its general offensive action considerably. As usual the defensive has been its strongest point...
Died. James Lord Pratt, 76, proprietor of Essex, Conn.'s famed, 260-year-old Pratt's Village Smithy (wrought-iron work), reputed the oldest business in the U. S. run continuously by one family; of a heart attack; in Essex...
...last-minute affirmation, it might seem as though it was Danton's Death that Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote of "sound and fury, signifying nothing." For the play is a dark forest of conflicting themes, can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism, a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely instruments in a historical process. But Danton's Death is just as undramatic as it is indecisive. Fatalistic, Hamletesque Danton, bogged in procrastination...
...first half remained scoreless despite a strong forward attack by the Crimson. Shifty and efficient passwork by the forwards and half backs were of no avail when miskicks and the wind diverted the ball from its course to the Army goal...