Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...casualties. Japanese forces claimed Ichang. This was an important victory, since Ichang is one-third of the way up the Yangtze toward Chungking from Hankow. The Kunming-Hanoi' railroad line was severely bombed, leading New York Times's reliable F. Tillman Durdin to predict a Japanese attack on French Indo-China. Next day France fell, and the future status of Indo-China became vague...
Died. Thakore Saheb Shri Dharmendrasinhji, 30, native ruler of Rajkot, India; of a heart attack; while hunting in the Gir Forest. It was to give the subjects of the despotic Thakore Saheb a voice in their Government that Mahatma Gandhi began his "fast unto death" in 1939, which he ended at the intervention of British Viceroy Lord Linlithgow, and the establishment of an advisory council...
Died. DuBose Heyward, 55, Southern poet and novelist (Porgy, Mamba's Daughters); of a heart attack; in Tryon...
...four and a half years on the air, the CBS Gang Busters stood off many an attack. When parent-teacher associations complained that their re-enactment of underworld derring-do was bad stuff for children, Gang Busters pointed out that the little ones couldn't learn too early that crime does not pay. When Probation Officer Frank Xavier Reller of St. Louis denounced the program for inspiring juveniles to concoct all kinds of deviltry, Gang Busters boasted that over a hundred mobsters had been brought to justice through aerial tips that they supplied...
...When the Nazis broke through at Sedan, defense-minded Generalissimo Gamelin was hurriedly replaced by attack-minded...