Word: counterattacking
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...Wore Them Around Your Neck You'd Change Them More Frequently," he lately started a campaign to make men wear their full quota of clothes and accessories. Last week his campaign resulted in the creation of a body called the National Men's Apparel Commission to counterattack nudism...
Grand Mobilization. Not on the Tugwell Line alone however did AAA depend. It organized every available man for counterattack on "Tory" critics. Over the radio, Assistant AAAdministrator Victor A. Christgau declared that without AAA "farmers would be driven from the land." George E. Farrell, chief of AAA's wheat section, claimed that the coincidence of the drought and AAA's crop reduction program had saved farmers $22,500,000: "When drought comes it doesn't make any difference how many acres you plant. It gets 'em all. It costs about $3 an acre to plant wheat. Farmers left...
...General von Prittwitz' staff was a brilliant Lieut.-Colonel named Max Hoffman. When the new commander arrived from Hanover, Col. Hoffman explained to Hindenburg and Ludendorff a supremely bold plan of counterattack which they proceeded to make their own. In Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War Col. Hoffman had seen the appalling lengths to which Tsarist inefficiency could go. He was able to believe and convince Ludendorff that the Russian wireless which kept flashing to St. Petersburg the intended moves of Generals Samsonov and Rennekampf "in clear" was not attempting to deceive the enemy, as other German generals thought...
...Warsaw's ancient, stinking ghetto last week was many a jumpy Jew who feared for his life. Hardly a day had passed without a terrorizing raid by the newly-formed Polish Nazis and a vigorous counterattack .by the young men of the ghetto. One day a gentile woman on her way through the ghetto paused to give a child a piece of candy. Instantly the ingelach (little boys) and mädelach (little girls) swarmed around her, squawling for candy. A pious Jew stopped in the narrow, stall-lined street, looked into her face, then shouted...
Hard on the heels of the Big Board in trying to build up a businessman's counterattack against the Exchange Bill was the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. Able young President E. Burd Grubb, elected only last week, lost no time in emulating President Whitney's methods. President Michael J. O'Brien of the Chicago Stock Exchange, third largest in the U. S., did the same thing.* To businessmen throughout the land who thought that the proposed legislation was no concern of theirs, lawyers, brokers, bankers and dealers preached the same simple...