Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benjamin J. Davis, New York's Communist councilman who thinks Communism is a science (TIME, Jan. 26), uncovered another foul capitalist plot last week. This time, said he, it was "an attempt to intimidate the powerful Negro sentiment behind the presidential candidacy of Henry Wallace...
Europe. Does that seem an attempt to monopolize the European market? Is not America encouraging British coal production by Socialist workers, rather than shipping her own coal...
Lombardo persisted. "The Marshall Plan is an encouragement of production. . . ." The lion-dominated crowd chanted its dissent : "Your speech is written with Dunn's fountain pen."* Cried one delegate: "Traitor! The Marshall Plan is an American attempt to capture markets and throw European workers into unemployment...
...portrait of a middle-aged man, veteran of World War I, who volunteers for "heavy rescue" work in London. Finding in his new job a pride he had lost during "the arid, desolate years between the wars," he achieves anonymous heroic stature by surrendering his life in a futile attempt to save a trapped man. This is certainly one of the best war stories written in England...
...number of ideas how to accomplish this end. We proposed to increase the normal issue from four pages to six; to run more pictures and photographic supplements; to run a column of outside news from the United Press; to expand our critical departments; and so forth. I shall not attempt to say whether our program would in fact have made the CRIMSON of that time a better paper. But we were wholly sincere in our efforts and we did, I believe, command the support of most of those editors on the news, editorial and photographic boards who took an active...