Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bald, compact Banker Herbert Henry Lehman, who served under Franklin Roosevelt as lieutenant governor of New York from 1929 to 1933, and succeeded him in Albany when he went to the White House, has yet to be overpowered by his old friend Frank. Since Governor Lehman saw fit to attack the President's Court Plan last year, he has become an increasingly candid friend. Last week, independent Governor Lehman abruptly swept some of the Administration's political calculations into a cocked...
Shaggy-maned Liberal David Lloyd George leaped to the attack. Mr. Chamberlain and his Cabinet members were carrying on "like a bevy of maiden aunts who had fallen among buccaneers," snorted the Wartime Prime Minister. "I should have taken very strong action if I had been Prime Minister. The airplanes which attacked British ships came from the Italian front in the Balearic Islands. I would first of all have seen these air-dromes destroyed until they stopped sending bombing planes against our ships. If Gladstone, Campbell-Bannerman, or Asquith had behaved as the Prime Minister has done they would have...
...have been waged against both combatants and noncombatants. During the Italo-Ethiopian war, Ethiopian villages were gassed and bombed, Ethiopians who probably had only a vague idea of the war were slaughtered by the hundreds. In the Spanish civil war, heavy artillery, efficient new aircraft are being used to attack cities and civilians. In the year-old Sino-Japanese conflict, Tokyo's planes have devastated entire sections of unfortified Chinese towns, killing thousands of women and children...
Next day on Broadway, slow-motion newsreels revealed what had actually happened during those incredible 124 seconds. Schmeling was knocked down three times in the fastest and most furious attack in ring history. No foul blow was struck. The decisive punch was a violent right to the jaw (after five rapid hooks) that landed so squarely Schmeling's hair shook like a mop. The body blows that followed, when Schmeling was hanging glassy-eyed on the ropes, were just for good measure. The famed kidney punch, by this time almost an international incident, was a blow to the short...
...which may be upped by 1,500,000 reserves, many of them Sokol-trained, a force of 1,350 first and second-line planes and an extensive "Maginot Line" of concrete fortifications and emplacements rooted in the Sudetens, President Benes believes he could hold off a German attack for three weeks. By falling back to a second defense line in the cross-country high Moravian plateau east of Prague, his general staff is convinced the nation could hang on for three months more...