Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mr. Cosgrave: "This crime has not been committed by private individuals against Kevin O'Higgins. It was the fruit of a steady persistent attack against the State and its fundamental institutions. On the head of those who have devoted themselves to that attack lies the blood guilt...
...fairness is evidently not wide enough to care that Robert Ingersoll was an agnostic and Thomas Paine a deist, neither of them an atheist. The usual decencies of intelligent controversy do not necessitate that a man be mealymouthed, either in the statement of his own views, or in his attack upon the views of his adversary, but they do at least prohibit misstatements of fact. It may be, to be sure, that TIME quoted Mr. Cameron Rogers* in its choice of terms, but it is sometimes hard to tell when TIME is quoting and when TIME is merely trying...
...letter in the June 13 number of Time signed CYRIL D. H. G. DILLINGTON-DOWSE. I am an Englishman of 25 years' residence in London and 20 in the United States, and I know well the insular type of Britisher who writes this strangely inept and grossly unjust attack upon TIME. He is evidently of the kind that nurses a blind prejudice against everything American. I encountered a number of such people during a recent two months' sojourn in London. Logical argument, ratiocination or even statement of proven fact, count for nothing with this type of self-constituted...
...take Colonel Lindbergh to New York the "one failure in the Spirit of St. Louis's performance," Mr. Mitchell added: "and it was caused by the organization in this country which has always impeded and held up aviation-the Navy." Navy officials refused to discuss the Mitchell attack, except for Assistant Secretary Robinson's remark, quoted above. Colonel Lindbergh, however, said: "It [the defect found in the Spirit of St. have been caused by carelessness on anyone's part. ... I wish particularly to compliment the naval air station at Anacostia on the high character of its personnel...
...well substantiated though sensational report told that Dr. Stresemann carried back to Berlin a secret British memorandum asking what would be the attitude of the German Government in the event that Soviet Russia should attack Poland, and France or Britain should wish to rush troops to Poland's defense over German soil. When these Russian matters were up for discussion, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland was to be seen anxiously pattering in and out of M. Briand's bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every...