Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London. Foreign Office heads worried lest Sir Edward's attack offend Australia at the moment when Britain is striving desperately to maintain Dominion acceptance of her own foreign policy. Next day their fears were relieved. Out came the Australian Prime Minister, bluff Joseph A. Lyons, with one of the most vigorous backslaps for British Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy ever delivered. To newshawks Prime Minister Lyons declared that his Cabinet had decided to express to Great Britain its complete confidence in steps and methods adopted by the British Government for a peaceful settlement of the Czechoslovak-Sudeten...
More rare and more deadly is the second stage, known to physicians as coccidioidal granuloma. Any time after an attack of "valley fever," about one patient in 500 develops symptoms of tuberculosis: enlargement of lymph nodes, lesions of the bones. Large ulcers develop all over the body and after extended suffering, 50% of the patients die. Medicine can offer them no help, for doctors know little of the course of the disease...
Year ago Mayor LaGuardia launched a new attack on Newark's monopoly-enlargement of the old North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay in Queens (20 minutes by car from Manhattan's Grand Central Station) into the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world (TIME, Sept. 20). At brisk Newark renovation also began...
...Will To Have Children, a Nazi magazine, came out in Berlin with an attack on marriage bureaus, an appeal to virile Nazi youth to speak directly for itself. The writer, Herr Doktor Paul Danzer, summed up: "Marriage bureaus have a disagreeable taste for the more sensitive young people. . . . There should be no special measures necessary to enable a decent young man to accost a girl-provided the girl makes no resistance. [Ohne besondere Massnahmen käme es dann dazu, dass der anständige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Mädchen ansprechen könnte...
Died. Aylmer Maude, 80, friend, biographer and translator of the works of Russia's late great Writer Leo Tolstoy; after a heart attack; at Great Baddow, Essex, England...