Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewdly President Roosevelt let others launch his attack on oligopoly, dispatching lieutenants to rostrum and microphone. Politicians suspected that all this was a build-up for a similar attack of his own. presumably to be delivered in his Jackson Day dinner speech this coming week. Opening shot was fired in a broadcast last fortnight by another Jackson, who happens to be head of the Department of Justice's anti-trust division-Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout J ackson. Bob Jackson, who is reputedly being groomed as the next Democratic Governor of New York State, last week followed his first...
...ante), and the driving of his lines some six miles beyond the city, meant no more than the nipping of that fingernail. In another sense, it was a major victory of the war, for it took the initiative away from General Franco just as he was about to launch his long-planned drive and induced him to pour his reserves of men and munitions into the battlefront chosen by his opponents. Apparently it ended the danger of a surprise Rightist offensive at any other point for months to come. Psychologically it was just as important to Leftist morale...
...even mention in the land of Eamon de Valera. This may be only a paper defeat for London, but tall, teacherish President de Valera used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State on a new foreign policy sharply different from that pursued by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, he asked the Dail to vote de facto recognition by the Irish Free State of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
What will it cost? In the past 20 years the U. S. Government spent $3,800,000,000 on the merchant marine. "We have come today to the end of our once-magnificent armada. Of the 2,500 vessels launched in the mightiest shipbuilding program in history but a few hundred aging specimens remain." Operating subsidies alone may mount under the present law to $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 per year. With luck and $50,000,000 of taxpayers' money solvent lines may launch 65 ships in the next five years. At the moment, the Commission...
...State prosecutor, President Nestor Lakoba of the Abkhaz Soviet Republic originated the conspiracy to assassinate Joseph Stalin in 1933 and the would-be assassins were disgruntled agents of the Dictator's own dread secret police, the Gay-pay-oo. They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from shore to safety. The other attempt to assassinate Stalin, according to the State, was made near Gagry, in 1935, by a group of prominent local Communist officials who were armed with an automatic rifle, a German carbine...