Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides the Anti-Saloon League, the Methodist Board of Temperance, the World League Against Alcoholism, the W.C.T.U. and others joined the attack on the stand of the Episcopal Temperance Society...
...annual international radio tests were conducted last week with indifferent success. The sun, undergoing its periodic attack of solar acne, discharged from its sunspots enormous masses of positive electrons, which swept into the far-flying signal waves with disruptive effect.* There was an earthquake in the Pacific one night which caused further blurring of communication; and two nights running, ships in distress on the storm-tossed Atlantic silenced all stations with their stark, tragic S.O.S.† The European program was flashed from stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over...
Died. Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan; at Tokyo, following an attack of influenza...
...World, in apologizing for its attack on the House memoirs, bewails the fact that we have not mentioned its interest in aluminum. Like the rest of America, we hardly knew there was an aluminum investigation. Besides, when your neighbor makes himself ridiculous the magnanimous course is surely not to draw attention to the fact...
...this it was the object of a hot verbal attack on the floor of Congress a week ago. Today's editorial discussed the statement of Prosecuting Attorney Buckner that prohibition cannot be substantially enforced. It said that "where as Americans used to flock to Europe as a tribute to a civilization which we have not attained, we now flood the continent with a disgraceful, thirsty crew that makes the name of America ridiculous in European eyes." The editorial said: "The majority of Americans subscribe to what masquerades under the name of Christianity. Why not make it compulsory and thus insure...