Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...angels" Father Divine exclaimed: "The attempt of a society lady in Newport to recognize the majesty of God has resulted in unpremeditated consternation growing out of prejudice and bigotry. I come to put a curb to such...
...brawl over the tropical swamp known as the Chaco. In the spirit of the hour both Senate and House hastily authorized President Roosevelt to place an embargo on shipments of arms to both sides in the minor squabble. The League of Nations joined the U. S. in this first attempt to discourage a war by refusing to sell lethal weapons to both combatants. The arms embargo did not stop the fighting...
Fourth Try. Congress is now fretting over a fourth Neutrality bill, a fourth attempt to make sense of the U. S. desire for peace. The bill sponsored in the House of Representatives by the Administration called for repeal of the mandatory embargo on arms exports. But isolationist Congressmen amended it to read very much like the 1935-36 Nye legislation. This palpable defeat for Roosevelt and Hull was hailed by verbal fireworks in Rome and Berlin. Fascist glee provoked a tart "I-told-you-so" from the President, who promptly called upon the Senate to reverse the House...
...used to buy goods that Britain has imported and is willing to reexport. The bill is expected to pass Parliament this week. The British did not try to disguise the projected loans as anything but political. The Nazi official news agency called it a "coldblooded attempt to buy European cannon for the benefit of the British armament industry...
Last year, Potash Co. of America (owned in Denver) profited from the Syndicate's attempt to rig the market, and doubled its plant capacity at Hobbs, N. Mex. Union Potash and Chemical Company, also of New Mexico, and 50% owned by International Agricultural Corp. (big fertilizer company) acquired three new leases to Government potash land, sped up shaft sinking to new deposits...