Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Couzens of Michigan inadvertently let out a Senate secret when he asked why the Rules Committee did not call Senators who had left the executive session to telephone Mr. Lenroot for promptings on how best to meet the attack against...
Perceiving that he had blundered, Senator Reed shifted his attack from the Press to the unnamed tattling Senator. With correspondents glaring at him from the gallery, he admitted that he had "committed some offense" by his slur upon their ethics and added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is not comparable in its meanness with that of the Senator himself who violates the rules and then hides behind the newspaper man. . . . The person to punish is the Senator who is guilty and I hope the Senate will not get it into its mind that we are starting...
...English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia. And the Agravians, out of a tender regard for the British, refuse to sell theirs to anyone, even to the Americans. In their New York skyscraper, the Americans remark that if only Clavery, the friendly kingdom, were to attack, invade, annex Agravia, Clavery would then control calcomite, sell it to America. But one Paul Zelinka becomes King of Clavery and outwits them all by making a pact with the Agravian President appealing to all peoples to set up a world control of calcomite. This is the first step towards internationalism...
...Dunbar, Washington postoffice inspector, volunteered that he had tricked Mrs. Dennett into sending her pamphlet to a "Mrs. Carl A. Miles" (himself), at Grottoes, Va. An official of the Daughters of the American Revolution, he said, had urged him to attack...
...Post was suing the Record for one million dollars damages for an article descriptive of "a social incident" between Publisher McLean and Prince Albert Edouard Eugene Lamoral de Ligne, the Belgian Ambassador to the U. S., an "incident" which had allegedly resulted in the Post's editorial attack upon the Ambassador (TIME, May 13, 27). Last week, the hard-hitting Record kept its readers' attention in custody by printing a front-page "correction in fairness to the Washington Post and Publisher McLean." In this statement, Publisher Julius David Stern of the Record caused his newspaper to say that...