Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Piety in office is nothing to sneeze at. Republican and Democratic leaders alike, worrying about the people's votes, are leary of starting an attack on the Governor that might be construed as an attack on the heavenly host...
...deployed in an area about the size of Wyoming, last week stood up expectantly. As the French Republic went under the conqueror's heel at Compiegne (see p. 20), they alone in all Europe were left to face what the Wilhelmstrasse last week assured them would be an attack "like nothing the world has ever seen...
Judged by the scanty number of Germans shot down, the British defenses were weak. But correspondingly few British ships were lost in heavy retaliatory raids, night after night, over the Ruhr, Bremen, Hamburg, as far east as Berlin. So upsetting to the Germans were these attacks that children were evacuated from western Germany and Air Marshal Göring was reported visiting there to calm the populace. Fact is, as frankly acknowledged by the authoritative British weekly The Aeroplane: "There is no real defense against night bombing." At the coast and around London and other populous centres, Britain has balloon...
Died. Jerome Myers, 73, painter of Manhattan street scenes, member of the National Academy, the American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. So closely did Artist Myers resemble Polish Pianist Paderewski that strangers frequently hailed him, "Hey, Paddy...
Died. Brigadier General John Taliaferro Thompson, 79, World War Director of Arsenals, co-inventor with the late Commander John N. Blish, U. S. N. of the Thompson ("Tommy") submachine gun; of a heart attack: in Great Neck...