Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mellon was an attack in The United States Banker by Senator Carter Glass, who helped install the Federal Reserve System, upon the recent practice of that System, which Secretary Mellon is popularly (but inaccurately) supposed to manipulate. Senator Glass observed that Federal Reserve loans for speculative purposes had risen from some $800,000,000 in 1921 to some $5,000,000,000 in 1928. This was apparently so, though really the Federal Reserve Banks did not loan that sum directly to speculators, nor all of it. Member banks did the loaning. Much of the money belonged to their depositors...
Captain H. W. Burns '28, G. E. Donaghy '29, and John Prior '29 led the attack for the Crimson team, while J. N. Barbee '28 held the visitors in check, allowing only five scattered hits and but one base on balls. The fielding gem of the day came in the eighth inning when W. B. Jones '28, in right field, made a diving catch which robbed Scammon, the visiting third baseman, of a two-bagger...
Walsh a son of a former major league hurler, was on the mound for the South Bend outfit, and held the Harvard batters well in hand throughout the nine innings. He allowed only seven' hits and struck out ten men. Walsh also was a leader in his team's attack, scoring four runs and collecting a home run and two singles in four times...
...Lord's sumptuous private train rushed toward Manchuria, preceded and followed by grim armored pilot trains, he knew that only an attack by enemy spies or some supreme treachery among his followers could deprive him of life or his great wealth. The unexpected and improbable occurred when two Nationalist spies were able to intercept Chang's train with shrewdly tossed bombs, which smashed three railway cars, but injured the War Lord very slightly, according to despatches...
Died. George White Doane, 74, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New Amsterdam Gas Co.; of heart disease; on the 8:49 (a.m.) train from South Orange, N. J. An attempt to board the 8:33, his usual train to Manhattan, precipitated the heart attack...