Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Reaction. Said Candidate Roosevelt: "A grand speech and splendidly given before an appreciative nation." Said Candidate Willkie: "Well, there can't be anything more wrong than 100% wrong." Said the New York Times with unusual asperity: "A line of attack which does no credit to him or his party. ... If this says anything, it says that a vote for Mr. Willkie is a vote for Hitler. That is an unjust charge, because the record shows that Mr. Willkie has been just as straightforward as Mr. Roosevelt in his condemnation of Hitler. ... It is an irresponsible charge. . . . Hitler may well...
Last month, when Germany unleashed her real air attack on Britain, she led with her chin in reckless massed raids of as many as 1,800 planes per day. Last week she showed that she had learned caution, punched craftily at Great Britain with not more than 1,000 planes in action each 24 hours, sent over in successive sections of 50 or 60 (two squadrons of 27, plus a few heavy Junkers 89 four-motored bombers...
Genial Dick Harlow, famed expenent of the spinuer cycle offense, is sitting on a keg of dynamite in Cambridge this fall. He must fact a suicide schedule with but an uncertain crop of Junior gridders, victims of an acute attack of jitters in the objective Eli game last November...
...primary defense of the U. S. against such an attack is fleet control of the Atlantic. But if by superior naval force an invader got a foothold, he would be in bombing range of U. S. fields from Newfoundland on. Chief of the Army's strong points in New England is the new Northeast Air Base now under construction at Chicopee Falls, Mass, (just north of Springfield). Farther south, on Long Island, is the Army's Mitchel Field, seat of the Air Defense Command. Through the whole northeast are scores of fields, ranging from New York City...
Died. Max David Steuer, 69, slick, hawk-faced criminal lawyer who rescued many a careless bigwig and stumbling mobster from legal quicksands; of a heart attack; in Jackson, N. H. Born in Austria, Jewish Max Steuer emigrated to Manhattan as a boy, worked day & night to pay for his legal education. At the height of his career, candid, inconspicuous Steuer was reputed to have made $1,000,000 a year. Among his clients: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Gangster John Torrio, ex-Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Fight Promoter Tex Rickard, onetime Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Charles E. Mitchell, onetime...