Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first real break in "principle" came with Roosevelt's "disastrous attempt to purge the Democratic Party of those who had opposed his will." Said Farley: "I could not and did not go along with him. . . . I believe that deep down inside, he never forgave me for putting party welfare above the personal allegiance he considered...
...inevitable. 37. Meanwhile, at Lake Success, Gromyko used the veto to kill Britain's attempt to fix blame on Albania...
WASHINGTON, June 15--Henry A. Wallace said today that the United States and Britain "would fight" if Russia should attempt to expand southward into Turkey in the vicinity of the Arabian oil fields and the Soviets should be told...
...have been arrested and none convicted. After Eddy Chibas' charge that Grau's Commerce Minister played the black market, the Minister resigned. And Grau, the professed democrat, governs by decree just like Batista. He has an alliance with the Communists that all but the Commies deplore. His attempt to seize for the Government the differential between the 1947 and 1946 sugar prices has alienated 50,000 sugar growers and a large part of his Autentico Party. "Never in the Republic's 45 years," said Sergio Carbo, another ex-Grau man, "has a Government squandered so much, robbed...
...decided to learn something of the modern world. There was something abroad which we Americans couldn't or wouldn't understand. But unless we made some attempt to realize that everyone in the world isn't American, and that not everything American is good, we'd all perish together, and in this 20th Century...