Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese reinforcements in Swatow. in South China, expecting an attack...
...listener who is first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities of the dial system, large numbers of calls often backed up the jam so far that it tied up all the numbers beginning with the same...
...Last October, when he was a Yale Law School professor, Yale University Press published a book of his called The Folklore of Capitalism. In it he said of the anti-trust laws that their actual result "was to promote the growth of industrial organizations by deflecting the attack on them into purely moral and ceremonial channels. . . . Men like Senator Borah founded political careers on the continuance of such crusades, which were entirely futile but enormously picturesque, and which paid big dividends in terms of personal prestige." Senator Borah was on the Senate Committee which three months ago approved Thurman Arnold...
BARCELONA--A Loyalist air squadron tonight raided Generalissimo France's aviation base at Palma de Majorca in the Balearic Islands, setting fire to three ships, in retaliation for a bombing attack that killed between 350 to 500 persons in the Catalan town of Granollers. A government communique said the three Insurgent ships set ablaze at Palma by Loyalist bombs were a part of Francos Mediterranean blockade fleet...
...Found the Senate Bill providing for RFC emergency loans to railroads unpalatable in view of the roads' announced determination to cut wages 15%. Under attack by Senate liberals led by Robert M. La Follette ("a wage-cutting campaign which will not only affect employes of the railroads, but employes in every other industry"), the bill was sent back to committee...