Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...would be politically difficult to impeach the President for the reason that the Democrats could not attack the head of their ticket in a campaign year. Besides, Mr. Roosevelt, more forehanded than Jefferson, had thought to arm himself. Attorney General Jackson in an opinion had found that the President, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, was not only authorized to provide bases to defend the U. S., he was forbidden to "risk any delay." He also argued that the President had authority to dispose of naval vessels. And since no money was involved in the deal Congress...
...such comparisons conveyed the full import of the protective chain which the U. S. acquired. Their real value is to complete a U. S. defensive ring around the Caribbean and provide real outposts against attack from the Atlantic. But the biggest all-over value is preventive: however useful the new bases are to the U. S. they would be even more useful to any enemy who got them first. Military men all agreed that without some of the bases which the British last week placed at U. S. disposal, no enemy could successfully invade the U. S. from the Atlantic...
During this air attack, the All-Stars were not napping. Schindler scored another touchdown. So did U. C. L. A.'s Kenny Washington and Clemson's Banks McFadden. But that was not enough. The Packers won, 45-10-28-in the most exciting game in the seven-year-old Ail-Star series...
...back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...
...years, wrote Prophet Lyle, "these things went on with scarcely a ripple on the serene surface of world affairs. . . . Then ... in cold blood the German Government set about manufacturing provocation for the attack. . . . Suddenly the world was asked to believe that we were war-mad aggressors wantonly attacking an unprepared and peace-loving Fatherland. . . . Then-the German ultimatum...