Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Omaha. Observers held that the result was in many ways Willkie's most effective speech yet. The theme: that the problems of the farmer, laborer, businessman, investor, consumer are all one problem; that prosperity cannot come to one group only; that the national welfare depends on a unified attack, a unified consideration...
...when the U. S. condemned the seizure of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France, the attack on Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
...doubtful whether the Republican triumph meant much. Hague forces hoped to keep the machines from being installed, at least until after Nov. 5. The Republicans did not kid themselves that they had Hague licked, but now was the time, if ever, to attack him on all fronts. Through his control of pivotal Hudson County with its whopping vote, Hague has elected five Governors, for years has euchred the Republican majority in the Legislature, has made "Hagueism" the dominating influence in the State. Both times Franklin Roosevelt ran for the Presidency, Hague delivered New Jersey's 16 electoral votes. Sixteen...
...Teachers' Union heads, Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, were no less strong in their attack of an "attitude of mind more in harmony with the fascist philosophy of social organization than with the democratic...
Referring to Dr. Butler's pronouncement as "astonishing" and a "frontal attack on the liberties of students and scholars in a free country," the HSU held this "thorough perversion of the phrase 'academic freedom'" to be "one more clear indication that many of our senior partners in the academic world have, through their subservience to the war drive, abdicated their position of leadership in America...