Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile M. le Président Gaston Doumergue of France received hundreds of appeals to pardon M. Daudet. The government was reputedly much inclined to this step; and no attempt whatever was made by the police last week to arrest Editor Daudet, who dined sumptuously on all manner of delicacies sent him by Parisians who admire his flashing spirit, consider him at worst harmless, at best a priceless "character...
...attempt the life of Signor Mussolini...
...turned his mind to history and the affairs of state. "Frederic and the Great Coalition" is more than a fascinating historical sketch, is a psychological treatise of a historical subject, only too rare in biographical writing. The bulky volume. "The Reflections of an Unpolitical Mind" was the first attempt in Germany to wield into a unit the political ideas and aspirations of Prussia and the philosophical and artistic "Weltanschauung" of the country of "poets and dreamers...
...questions come to the mind of a commentator. The first asks who is responsible for the trend. One answer is that the attempt to educate men regardless of capabilities leads naturally to the adoption of quickly attainable objectives, that administrators of public systems are well aware of this despair of convincing the generality of people that the indeterminate paths of learning are worth travelling, and therefore succumb, that politicians aid and abet all moves to make education practical because most electors are practical-minded...
...Foreign Minister Andrew Michalacopoulos left Athens for the coming session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. Despatches told that he would seek League backing in an attempt to float a $40,000,000 foreign loan...