Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Stimson: "France has been conquered and the sea power of Great Britain seems to be trembling in the balance. . . . We may be next. It is now recognized that if a powerful enemy secured a base at [Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Northeastern Canada] ... it could launch a devastating air attack upon our eastern seaboard. ... In the metropolitan area of New York over 7,000,000 people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that...
...University of Wisconsin, tried to get the Congress to denounce the suppression of civil liberties in Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, the invasion of Finland. Not a chance. Complained Mr. Kramer: "I'd like to see a little deviation from the Communist Party line. . . . We never can attack the sacred cow of Russia or of Communism...
...water front startled Nazi sentries stumbled to the defense, fell before the surprise attack of a British landing party perfectly coordinated with the assault from the air. As quickly as they had come the airmen pulled out and sped away, the raiders vanished. In broad daylight, all up & down the coast English soldiers, sailors & airmen stabbed the German-held shore line in a series of lightning sorties...
...Lancet also reported that sulfanilamide administered to wounded in Flanders proved another victorious medical technique. After this treatment, said the Lancet, "The condition of the men who have received no surgical treatment . . . is ... far better than that of men evacuated under similar circumstances during the great German attack over the same country...
Died. Paul Drennan Cravath, 78, massive, magisterial corporation lawyer, head of one of the nation's greatest law firms, Cravath, de Gersdorif, Swaine & Wood; of a heart attack; in Locust Valley, L. I. Nearly 55 years ago Paul Cravath, with his yard-wide shoulders, 240 lb., 6 ft. 4 in., was "Cicero'' to his Columbia University Law School classmates, at whose head he stood. In a "dry-goods"' law firm (one partner: Charles Evans Hughes) he pursued insolvent debtors for textile merchants, began acquiring corporations as clients. His first big one was Westinghouse Electric...