Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the Daily Worker, Communist Party organ, fired its cinema critic. Reason, according to Critic Howard Rushmore: he refused to follow the party line in his review of Gone With the Wind. Told to write a blistering attack on Margaret Mitchell's $3,850,000 picture, Critic Rushmore (whose grandfather was a Confederate soldier) merely said it was a bore...
...feel myself," he purred, "by some inadvertent question which I addressed to the committee without first submitting it to the SEC, that I provoked this matter. ... I am perfectly willing and happy to receive the letter." While Leon Henderson glowered, Witness Stanley handed out his attack on compulsory competitive bidding, which he and other investment brokers can see as a likely outgrowth of SEC's investigation. Next day it led the TNEC story in metropolitan newspapers. The Morgan Stanley thesis...
Died. Rear Admiral Reginald Fairfax Nicholson, 87, last surviving Civil War naval officer; of a heart attack; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. He served as chief navigation officer (1898) of the battleship Oregon on its spectacular trip around Cape Horn to join the U. S. fleet off Cuba. He was one of the two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars. (The other: John Paul Jones...
...Uranium Attack. The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has a powerfully equipped atom-smashing laboratory, headed by Dr. Merle Anthony Tuve. Early this year, when two Germans announced disintegration of the heavy uranium atom with release of 200,000,000 electron-volts of energy (most powerful man-made atomic explosion), Dr. Tuve and co-workers promptly confirmed the discovery, added the find that the uranium fragments become radioactive, continuing to emit particles for a few seconds after the impacts have stopped...
Stressing long shots rather than a short passing attack (on the theory that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points), Teacher Bee has developed team after team of dead-eyed marksmen. Three years ago, a team of Beemen ran up a string of 43 victories before finally losing to a steaming-hot Stanford bunch led by famed Shooter Hank Luisetti...