Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Daniel Kelleher, 65, of Seattle, board chairman of the Seattle National Bank, president of the Bank for Savings (Seattle); of a heart attack; in Seattle...
Since Prime Minister Poincaré is thoroughly tired of office after two and a half years of struggle and achievement, he did not even condescend to appear in the Chamber, last week, to defend his Government. Though suffering from only the lightest attack of influenza, the wise old "Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics...
With true official taciturnity, the high command of the force has refused to divulge the slightest detail of the plan of attack to be followed. There is a rumor, however, from reliable sources, to the effect that a number of the most robust and courageous policemen are to be organized as a "bean blower squad." Whether this unit will take up an in trenched position that will command the Gibson Terrace sector, or whether it will depend on speed and mobility for defense, and patrol the region, is as yet a matter of conjecture. One thing, however, is certain...
...Harvard Lampoon has done it again; but this time it seems to transcend all other offenses against good taste and sense, because the present attack on Edward S. Harkness is something serious and tangible...
Inasmuch as the Straus purchase was for five-fourths of a seat, there still remained the question of what quarter-seats, sold separately, would bring. The bear market caused by the Federal Reserve's attack on speculative loans (see p. 47) may well lower seat prices since speculation by the general public is always on a bull market. A bear market generally means less trading for seat-holder, fewer commissions...