Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Executive committee secretary Daniel Yankelwitz 1G asserted yesterday that he had cleared letters to key individuals in over 100 colleges and universities n New England urging formation of "Save the Marshall Plan" drives throughout the area along the lines of the attempt here...
Early rumors that a conscience-stricken Councilman would attempt to break the filibuster were squelched by an ugly counter-rumor that he wouldn...
...governing body, headed by Gerald Genn '48, includes Robert C. Seaver '50, Gilbert S. Hill '46, Robert L. Weschler '49, and Paul W. Mandel '51. Besides actual production, the group will attempt to provide training for would-be dramatic writers...
Appreciated is your good article about the year-old Pacific Spectator [TIME, Jan. 19], the stoutest attempt yet made to give the West Coast a magazine devoted to ideas rather than to house & garden hints, cheesecake, or the self-admiration of Hollywood. . . . But reference to "U.C.L.A.'s Dixon Wecter" calls for a word of correction. I meet a seminar on that campus one afternoon a week one term a year, but my main job is at the Huntington Library, where for the past two years I have been Chairman of Research. Whatever dubious credit arises from possession thus belongs...
...industry will buy its films. One of the largest customers for earlier offerings was Amtorg (Soviet-U.S. trading company). OTS will continue to sell its wares to all comers. Wide distribution of German technical knowledge will do more to increase the lead of U.S. industry than any attempt at secrecy...