Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Dined with Göring, while the Nazi press thundered its regular warning that Göring's mighty air force could launch its devastating attack on Britain whenever Hitler said the word. If there was any justification for last week's gloom in Washington and the word there that the Allies have only a 45-to-55 chance, Göring was the man to justify...
...Balkans, the conviction spread that a fateful decision had been made and a great attack was impending; as the British-Italian trade agreement broke down; as Swedish public opinion split on the question of aid to the Finns and King Haakon of Norway hurried to Stockholm; as Premier Molotov in Moscow gave a three and one-half hour lunch to U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt; as diplomatic life all over Europe speeded up in the wake of the Welles mission, it was plain that, although Sumner Welles made no statement, raised no hopes, he looked to many a European like...
...persuasive, lucid speaker, with a well-cultivated voice, who can make religion sensible and attractive to great masses of people. Though his official job is teaching philosophy at the Catholic University in Washington, he fills 150 speaking dates a year. Three weeks ago he did not let an attack of grippe keep him from engagements in St. Louis and Cleveland, nor a fever of 102° prevent him from preaching at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, where for the tenth year he was Lenten orator...
...accused the Royal Air Force of undertaking its German night flights to attack its No. 1 propaganda problem, but one British woman did write that she thought the R. A. F. might time its forays so as not to silence Lord Haw-Haw. Lord Haw-Haw's nightly talks are a "must" on some 50% of Great Britain's 9,000,000 licensed radio sets. He disparages British war aims, takes precise potshots at slum conditions, colonial policies, commiserates with war-discomforted Britons at home. As the Socialist Forward recently warned: "He blandly takes the British public...
Died. Elmer Mustard, 67, four-day Fire Commissioner of New York City; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. He succeeded Commissioner John J. McElligott, who retired, then changed his mind...