Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both political and religious proprieties. The Roman Curia used to be thought of as at least astute; there is nothing astute about this. The Roman Church used to be thought of as a force in the protection of Christian marriage and the Christian home; this is a direct assault upon both. It would be bad enough if it were but the ill-considered commercial venture of an individual; but a papal chamberlain is esteemed a member of the Pope's household itself. . . . [That office] is one of intimate association with the person of the Pontiff. One cannot conceive...
...Significance. Senator Reed is, of course, as Wet as he is fiery. Between his politics and Governor Smith's the chief difference comes on Big Business, to which Governor Smith is geographically nearer. Senator Reed's assault at Sedalia was not merely upon crooked "interests" but upon trusts in general. He did not, however, mention that anathema of the bankers, farm relief. Unless Governor Smith declares himself as a Big Business man, delegates instructed for Senator Reed would, at convention, have only the dwindling barrier of Governor Smith's religion to hurdle, should the Reed candidacy prove...
...defeated J. Hampton Moore, a onetime Philadelphia Mayor, by 73,969 votes (unofficial count). This was over 100,000 votes less than Senator-elect Vare piled up in the Philadelphia pri-mary last Autumn against George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot. Elated, Candidate Moore and friends talked about another assault on the Vare machine at the November election, with an independent ticket. Philadelphians could thus look forward to two months more of Vare-style campaigning, which consists in spending dollars by the hundreds of thousands. A pro-Vare organ that will presumably continue is The Young Republican, among whose targets...
...care to go on record as the instigator of an assault, but I certainly would enjoy reading that some of our Legion boys had pretty well "thumped" this Dowse...
Should the charges of first degree robbery and felonious assault be proved against Mr. Lyle, conviction would carry sentence of 15 years' imprisonment...