Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...premise your attack on the Congress for "stalling" in your Aug. 12 issue, as you have in previous issues, on the Gallup Poll, which purported to show that late in July two-thirds of the American people favored conscription. I shall not say that the Gallup Poll is meaningless in its results on most questions, although I have yet to see or hear of any person interviewed by a Gallup Poller, but I do assert that the Gallup Poll on conscription on which you rely is meaningless because it is weighted. You fail to point out that the question asked...
...England had come Major General James Albert Woodruff's Black Army. Spearheaded was the regular Army's famed First Division, screened by the Army's historic Third Cavalry. Outnumbered almost 2-to-1 by the defending Blue Army of National Guardsmen, it was ready to attack from the banks of the Grass River (flowing north into the St. Lawrence) when the maneuver began...
Blimpish Conservative Sir William Davison attempted conciliation: "Is it desirable," he began, "that Democracy be made a laughingstock by such a frivolous attack on the Prime Minister...
From the evidence seized, the Gendarmes claimed proof of an armed, thoroughly organized Nazi militia, planning "liquidation" of local Government officials, destruction of food and fuel deposits, armed resistance in case of attack. General Calderon published photographs of arms caches; Commandant Barres told of radio transmitters, a card file containing names, personal characteristics, technical aptitudes of all Germans in the district. Significant was "an official German map" of Europe and South America, marked with a red band extending from Germany downward through Brazil, covering all Misiones Territory...
...undivorced husband (he said he was married to her in 1911), claimed a share in her $500,000-a-year income (TIME, July 19, 1937). All he got from Miss West was grudging confirmation of the marriage. Last week Song & Dance Man Wallace tried again. Shifting his attack to her fat-faced, multiple-chinned manager, James A. Timony, Wallace sought damages of $105,000, charging that Timony had threatened his life, conspired against his chances for employment, assumed "the position and relationship of a common-law husband of the plaintiff's wife." Said Miss West: "Wallace is evidently...