Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, the Administration's attempt to give the Taft-Hartley Act a swift knockout collapsed. The Labor and Public Welfare Committee had been holding day & night sessions to speed the repealer bill, finally had to extend public hearings for two more weeks. It was a serious blow to labor. Many labor contracts will come up for renegotiation in April, and labor had hoped that by then a modified Wagner Act would have replaced the Taft-Hartley Act on the books. That now looked unlikely...
Throughout it all, the linguistic battle lines between the Mandarin-speaking refugees from the north and the laughing, dark-skinned Cantonese drew tighter and tighter. The northerners aloofly refused to attempt the Cantonese dialect and its eight singing tones (Mandarin has only four). They snootily reminded their hosts that Canton and Kwangtung Province had been declared a barbarous territory as recently...
Senator Malone maintained that it is foolish for the United States to attempt to raise the standard of living in Asia and other countries by lowering its own standard. He proposed continuing the fundamental principle of the Monroe Doctrine and applying it to the world...
...Trade newspapers make an attempt to do our crystal ball gazing for us, but I've found them quite unreliable. The only thing we can do is to keep up with the trends and move the minute we notice changes in them...
...Dean's Office approved the project and will attempt to get the University to waive tuition for the DP. Profits from the St. Patrick's Day freshman weekend and the reserve in the class treasury will go toward the undertaking...