Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early stages of the game but were unable to hold it in the second half. Moving along rapidly after a 20 to 20 tie at halftime, the Newport boys piled up a large margin which the Woodmen could not overcome. Bill McSweeney and Fran Simpson paced the Crimson attack with nine and eight points respectively, but Campbell of the visitors stole top scoring honors with nine baskets...
Quick to deny any part in this attack on Miss Perkins, was her loudest critic, Representative Martin Dies* of Texas. Said he: "I wouldn't go so far as to accuse the Secretary of high crimes and misdemeanors...
Died. Robert Hallowell, 52, self-taught U. S. artist who, with Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly, was one of the founders of the New Republic in 1914; of a heart attack; on Staten Island...
Died. Dr. Joseph Irwin France, 65, onetime (1917-23) U. S. Senator from Maryland; of a heart attack; in Port Deposit, Md. The only avowed candidate against Herbert Hoover at the Republican Convention in 1932, he was forcibly ejected from the convention rostrum when he attempted to withdraw his name and substitute that of Calvin Coolidge...
Holmes deplored the use of political influence to obtain teaching positions in public schools, and declared that if the superficial requirements for teachers were to be changed, then "institutions of university rank must lead the way in a very different and much more radical attack on the direct preparation of teachers for their immediate tasks in the classroom...