Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invaders pushed forward to Rancocas Creek where they encountered a defensive force of 200,000. A fierce engagement on a 40-mile front ensued. The U. S. centre was badly broken. Mt. Holly and Camp Dix fell. Trenton was bombed to bits. Philadelphia and New York lay open to attack. Then with supreme courage and vigor the U. S. forces rallied and in a fine display of open warfare threw themselves savagely upon the enemy, driving him back and back. All losses were recovered. A "lemon squeezer" movement was being applied to the invaders when an armistice ended...
Reserve officers and National Guardsmen were aquiver with excitement. On the night before the big Red drive, few if any of them got any sleep. Brig.-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, commanding the 154th Brigade of the New York Guard, waited bravely for the attack at the Wrightstown-Lakewood crossroads. When along toward dawn it did not occur, he rolled up in his blanket and took a 60-minute catnap on the roadside...
...Commission to supply him with the names of Democratic Senators who had appealed to it for higher tariff rates under the law's flexible, clause for commodities of, local interest to them. It was said that President Hoover was going to use this information to combat the Democratic attack upon tariff flexibility, to show that many a Democrat had covertly sought to use this very machinery to get higher rates for special commodities. Mississippi's Senator Harrison shouted that neither he nor any other Democrat would thus be "bludgeoned or browbeaten" by the White House...
...purpose of this personal attack by a relative is quite unknown to me. In 40 years the companies under my chairmanship have passed through difficult periods, but I never had to ask the stockholders to consent to the writing down of the capital of any shipping company. Statements have been circulated about a possible reconstruction of the Royal Mail Company which are absolutely without foundation. For the first six months of this year the results obtained are better than...
...Ingeniously wangled from Russia after the Russo-Japanese War, the S. M. R. is today worth $220,000,000, keeps the Japanese Colony of Korea fed with Manchurian wheat and soya beans. Its 700 miles of track are guarded by 20,000 soldiers against just such an attack as last week befell...