Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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First big Nazi air attack began on Aug. 8 near Dover. Before daybreak a flotilla of Nazi motor torpedo boats darted into a Channel convoy of 20 small coastal ships, sank three. The convoy continued westward down the Channel. About 9 a.m., 50 Junkers dive bombers, with Messerschmitt fighters swarming above them, swooped out of the morning sun. Some of the ships were towing barrage balloons which the Germans had to shoot down before they could dive-bomb. Anti-aircraft fire and squadrons of angry British Spitfires and Hurricanes hurtled up from the British coast. The sky spun crazily with...
Holding his main attack in reserve for his official acceptance speech next week, Republican Nominee Wendell Willkie kept up a running skirmish with his Presidential opponent. As Democratic bolters and independent voters came out for him, Candidate Willkie stood at the head of the receiving line, deftly turning each one's particular strength into a campaign weapon-sometimes by letting a new supporter speak for himself, sometimes by his own welcoming remarks. Last week Mr. Willkie received into the fold...
Britain has a series of emergency plans. Last week, whether because the Germans did not attack much or because shipping was at a minimum, little bombing of convoys off the east and south coasts was reported...
Next day this unpopular warning was answered by Franklin Roosevelt himself. A message from the White House to the convention blasted barter, said it would "subject . . . the entire nation to the regimentation of a totalitarian system." Henry Francis Grady, Assistant Secretary of State, followed up his chief's attack in person. His small eyes flashing behind shell-rimmed glasses, Free-Trader Grady tore into protectionism, dictatorship, a "sixth column ... of special interests." Said he: "I cannot believe that the cause of liberal trade is lost...
Died. John Raymond McCarl, 60, first U. S. Comptroller General (1921-36); of a heart attack; in his Washington law office. Softspoken, florid Comptroller McCarl took his job very seriously. "Watchdog of the Treasury" during his 15-year term, he annoyed the administrations of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt II by refusing to O. K. checks for expenditures not authorized by Congress. Sample McCarlism: refusal to pay $1.50 for a Government employe's lunch because "there is nowhere in Virginia where one can buy a lunch worth...