Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Fitzgerald's labors were interrupted fortnight ago when influenza bedded him at his home in Grand Ledge. There last week a heart attack ended the labors of 54-year-old Frank Fitzgerald forever...
...front-line service on the Western Front. It was a grey and dirt-colored allegory of war which, like the Thirty Years War in Europe (1618-48), lasted so long that men forgot, in disease, starvation and insanity, what they were fighting for. The witlings who stumble to the attack in A Piece of My World do so with forks for bayonets, rats for their baggage train, ruin for their objective...
While Hitler was marching east last week (see p. 16), Central European Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye published in World's Press News (British equivalent of Editor & Publisher) a blistering attack on the English press. After telling how he had to resign from the London Telegraph for criticizing British foreign policy in his book, Betrayal in Central Europe, Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye published in evidence of censorship: "Today one great Conservative newspaper is actually binding its foreign correspondents to write nothing whatever outside its columns without permission." Everybody knew he meant the London Times...
...before they occurred), got first copies of dispatches from diplomats abroad, read the Queen's speeches before the Queen herself had read them. Editor Delane made Cabinet members so scared of The Thunderer that often they hurried to tell him their most vital decisions to save themselves from attack...
...sold bicycles in Toledo, automobiles in Los Angeles, made enough to buy the finest breeding stable in California and to be one of Culbert Olson's chief backers. Last week Odell screamed that during the election campaign Church asked him for $5,000 on the promise that an attack on Pacific States would be left out of a recorded Olson speech. Custodian Church denied asking for the $5,000, but admitted receiving $2,500, admitted too that mention of Pacific States had been removed from the phonograph record. Governor Olson snapped that he, for one, knew nothing about...