Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...British Isles, long the world's greatest naval fortress, staggered under attack and faced the destruction of its maritime supply lines, but the Battle of Britain would not necessarily decide the World War. The enemy had dangerously extended his lines and was having his share of trouble: from sabotage in Norway, from anarchy in Rumania, from military reverses in the Battle of Greece, which had become the Battle of Albania. Yet the stronger Axis partner apparently hesitated to send aid to the weaker partner for much the same reason that the Allies could not help the Lowlands in time...
...brightest of all faces on the historic stand of Greece. Said he: "If we can enable Greece to hold her own until we have disposed of the Italians in Egypt, we shall have secured for our armies a foothold from which we might threaten the flank of any German attack on Turkey...
Died. Allan A. Ryan, 61, Wall Street operator who cornered Stutz Motor stock in 1920 (forcing the price from $70 to $724 a share), then lost even his Exchange seat; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Because he denounced his late, great father for taking a second wife twelve days after the death of his first, Financier Ryan was cut off with a set of pearl studs in the $135,000,000 will of Tobacco Baron Thomas Fortune Ryan...
Merriam made a long attack on those political theorists who too closely associate methods of government and systems of economy. "Perhaps nothing in modern life has wrought more destruction than this assumption of the determining quality of factors vaguely called economic," he said...
Died. Billy Jones, 51, tenor half of the Happiness Boys, first nationally known radio team, partner from 1920 until 1939 of the late Baritone Ernie Hare; of a heart attack, as he strolled along Broadway on his way to rehearse his Sunday program over station WMCA...