Word: counterattacks
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...Wheels. Against this bitter, heavily financed and almost anonymous assault Taft had adopted the only practical strategy. It was to counterattack. By last week his fight for re-election and political survival had become the liveliest battle in the 1950 campaign. He had started his counterstroke a year ago, after Labor Day, campaigned until January, resumed the battle again last August. The 61-year-old Taft acted as though he were determined to show his face to every man, woman & child in the state. Occasionally, he went in a Beechcraft plane, piloted by his second cousin, David Ingalls, the Navy...
Last Gasp. In the south, Walker on Aug. 7 mounted the first sustained U.S. counterattack of the war, to drive the enemy back from his disquieting proximity to Pusan. General Craig's marines joined this "spoiling attack," but Walker pulled them out after they had helped to upset the enemy. He had to make shift with what troops were already at hand, shuttling them from one crisis to another. The next reserves due to arrive-the bulk of the 1st Marine Division from the U.S. and the 7th Infantry from Japan-were earmarked for Operation Chromite, the invasion...
Your story . . . contained the statement that Mary Margaret McBride has been denounced in Counterattack . . . because she has endorsed Polish hams...
...refreshing to see honest, positive and effective action taken against vicious and deadly Communist infiltration of our American Republic. Such sincere, upstanding, red-blooded Americans as Benjamin Schultz and his Joint Committee Against Communism, together with Theodore Kirkpatrick and Counterattack [TIME, Sept.11], certainly should make all of us proud-especially when they base their actions on the good old American principle that a person is guilty until he proves himself innocent...
...cans of beer absolutely free of charge. Not to be outdone, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. offered several vatfuls of free beer, too. At that, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., rose in Denver before the 76th convention of her sisterhood to launch a heated counterattack...