Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disregarding his attack on Governor Smith and the Catholic Church, one is equally impressed by Senator Heflin's melodramatic threats against the "villain" newspaper correspondents who reported his speeches from the press galleries. It is possible, however, that the reporters regretted the necessity of publishing the words which so plainly signified a lack of tact on the part of the Senator from Alabama, but in the last extremity they can plead that he gave them no cue that his condemnation of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to tar and feathers was made only in "fun." In a speech bristling with denunciations...
...Jackson was the President who introduced the "spoils system" of patronage into national government, but that did not deter Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer for the New York Evening World, from excoriating the "Harding Gang." As historian and first speaker of the evening, Mr. Bowers had first chance to attack the Republicans; he did it so thoroughly that subsequent speakers felt free to talk mainly about themselves or other Democrats...
Both teams were equally matched, holding each other to a 0-0 score through two thirds of the game. Ten minutes after referee. Noonan had dropped the puck on the ice for the third period, the Harvard team began to show a concentrated attack on the schoolboy cage. In a spurt of team work, R. S. Ogden '31 flashed the puck to Watts, who lashed the dise into...
...Bruins are novices on the runners, not having worn them until last season. Then an underrated Brown sextet, though outplayed throughout the contest, held the Crimson ice squad from high scoring, displaying a brilliant defense which repeatedly foiled the Harvard attack in its flashy dashes into alien territory...
Deposited appropriately by a battleship on Cuban soil while Marines were planning a new bombing attack on Niearaguan villages. President Coolidge eloquently clouded the issue in the speech of optimistic generalities in which he assured a doubtful world that the interests of this country are anything but imperialistic. But if the United States treatment of South America where the investments of her citizens exceed the total of those placed in Europe is not imperialistic. It is a form of aggressive and armed commercialism. Foreign nations, forbidden themselves to interfere, have sneered at what they choose to call a hypocritical, forceful...