Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover's are by a hard 'efficiency' which works out to strengthen the position of just those economic interests that most need weakening instead of strengthening. I can hardly think of any insincerity greater, whether it is calculated or unconscious, than is involved in the attempt to 'sell' Mr. Hoover to the women of the country as a great humanitarian. That he is an efficient administrator of charity and semi-philanthropy in times of emergencies I shall not question. But if he has any human insight, dictated by consciousness of social needs, into the policies...
...believe that it is an insult, a coldblooded insult. . . . It is a foolish attempt to get the American workingman to believe that the Democratic Party under my leadership is going to prostrate him, drive his children out of his house and leave him helpless and homeless. What a stupid performance-of all the men in the world to urge that against a man who came up from the ranks of labor himself, and if elected President I am going to drive them all out of their home...
...obvious superficiality of familiar movie films have prejudiced faculties against them and it is with something of a start that one reads of their introduction into a Harvard class room. The reels to be projected by the German department are well chosen however in that they attempt what is preeminently fitted to this sort of presentation...
...attempt to assist tutees concentrating in German, Arthur Burkhard, chairman of the board of tutors in German, will show a film depicting life in Germany, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Agassiz Theatre...
...following article was written specially for the Crimson by Professor E. M. Morgan '02, of the Harvard Law School. It is a criticism of articles in the current issue of the "Outlook" which attempt to prove that Frank Silva, not Vanzetti was guilty in the Bridgewater holdup...