Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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LONDON--The shattering of a Nazi attempt to land troops on the British Isles and a naval air battle near the entrance to Bristol Channel that sent four marauding German destroyers fleeing back to the French "invasion port" of Brest were reported officially today...
Adolf Hitler's attempt at the a sea-borne invasion of Britian was said by the air ministry to have been fustrated on Sept. 16 when RAF bombers laid siege to his massed transports and forced the Nazi troops to abandon ship...
...attempt came a few hours after Hitler hurled his mightiest air armada against the British Isles and suffered his worst defeat of the war in the air--at least 185 Nazi planes shot down on Sept...
...will probably be mild at first. Those who forgot or for any other reason were unable to register will have to do so. Those refusing to register as conscientious objectors will be forced to in court and probably will lose any right to plead for deferment. Draft dodgers who attempt to conceal themselves will face the F.B.I. and be liable to a $10,000 fine or five years in prison...
Siepmann emphasized the fact that radio must not attempt to argue particular solutions to problems, such as unemployment, but has a social duty to present the facts in a vivid way to the masses, which only radio can reach. The public must be taught that "unemployment is not a static; it is a human experience," Siepmann pointed...