Word: counterattacking
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...would probably wreck the country's economy. But the same House majority also realizes that a clear-cut statement of their views would do each & every member inestimable political damage in home districts. As a matter of political self-preservation, therefore, the House last week started its oblique counterattack on the Townsend Plan, hoping to show it up as a ridiculous racket and thus deflate its importance in the November elections. As the spear point of the counterattack, Representative Bell could afford to take the risk of sponsoring the Townsend inquiry because back of him in Kansas City...
...truth but privilege was the News-Telegram's defense. Its counsel argued that a citizen attacked in one newspaper should be legally privileged to retort through another newspaper with a defense which might include a counterattack on the attacker. That seemed fair enough to the jury but the trial judge, who said he had never heard of such a defense, set the verdict aside. The News-Telegram carried an appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court, last month got a unanimous verdict in its favor...
...shade easier than that facing the other two armies, but the distance to his base, Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean, is almost twice as long, the difficulties of water, food and supplies almost twice as great. It is against him that Ethiopians have their best chance of a counterattack into Italian territory. Among the Ethiopian commanders opposing General Graziani last week is one of the most picturesque characters in the country, the former Turkish General Wehib Pasha...
...generalissimo of Mexico's war on the Catholic Church, Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, was last week in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from an operation on his gall bladder. The leader of the Church's counterattack, fat, sloe-eyed Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...
Attorney General Cummings listened to these opening arguments, placidly chewing gum, tobacco, paper or whatnot. After Frederick H. Wood, in sonorous periods, had launched B. & O.'s counterattack, Mr. Cummings took the stand. He argued little about the law, less about economics, a great deal about horrendous social consequences. He told the Court at length that a great emergency had existed in 1933. He estimated that there were $100,000,000,000 of Government and private gold obligations outstanding. If these had to be paid back in devalued dollars, it would take $169,000,000,000. Cried the Attorney...