Word: counterthrusts
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...candidate whom Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker defeated in 1929. But in the campaign he charged Tammany with most of the honeyfuggling which Samuel Seabury later proved in his famed probe. Last Autumn Mr. La Guardia, a radical Republican, failed to be re-elected to Congress. As a deft counterthrust Tammany promptly began to talk of running Ferdinand Pecora as the Tiger's candidate for district attorney. Smart counsel to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee and a Sicilian immigrant, Democrat Pecora would split the Italian vote which Italian-extracted Fiorello La Guardia would naturally draw...
...What, my gallant Marshal, . . . were you so afraid of my counterthrust? Or had it occurred to you that if, as was probable, I died before you, I should for ever have remained post mortem, under the weighty burden of your accusations? . . . Ah, Foch! Foch! . . . What a stain on your memory that you had to wait so many years to give vent to childish recriminations against me through the agency of another, who, whatever his merits, knew not the War as you and I lived...