Word: counterattacked
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...which Abd-el-Krim was trying to make a jehad, or holy war, of all the Muhammadans in Morocco, was thought likely to last for some months; and no counterattack by the French was anticipated until the arrival of 30,000 reinforcements from Marseilles, which would bring up the French Army to about...
Chancellor Luther led the counterattack on the Socialist charges. In spite of numerous interruptions and fierce yells, he ably defended the Government's action, declared that the money had been disbursed to thousands of people and not to a few big industrialists. He said that the Government was legally and politically justified in making the grant, which was necessary to prevent the separation of the Ruhr from Germany. He furthermore denied that the Government had only recently offered to obtain the Reichstag's ex post facto sanction for the credits, welcomed a thorough investigation of all payments...
...Nation, nor like Mellon, a solver of the financial intricacies for the biggest business, the largest trust, the only absolute monopoly of the country-the U. S. Government. Rather, Warren is a man of more diversity, all mobile, a capable strategist, hard to trick, always ready for sortie or counterattack, complete and instant master of the forces of his mind...
Coming in a presidential year, the 15th annual Convention of the American Bankers' Association (in Chicago) directed its most earnest attention to politics and to economic problems which have been involved in politics. Its keynotes were an out-and-out defense of the existing capitalistic system and a counterattack on its political foes all along the line. Both addresses and resolutions thus included an unusually wide range of topics: demagogs were attacked, the railroads defended; both the direct primary and the Child Labor Law were condemned; public ownership was assailed; a plea for foreign investments was made; the farmer...
...There is but one way out of the situation, and that is to fight the audacious Moor until he is beaten and his morale broken. We must meet every attack of the Moors with counterattack...