Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring the 1940 Union Committee appointed a sub-committee, headed by Philip C. Neal '40, to infuse new life into the then flagging organization. In an attempt to revive interest, upper-class officers resigned in favor of Freshmen, but remained active in an advisory capacity. Neal heads the society this year...
...House. Waiting for their own Farm Bill last week, House members had nothing to do except to go on listening to oratory on subjects ranging from neutrality to Social Security. Liveliest altercation of the week was caused by Labor Committee Chairman Mary Norton's attempt to coax the Wages & Hours Bill out of the Rules Committee where it has reposed since last August with a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. When Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he had signed the petition, urged his confreres to do likewise, Republican Leader Bertrand Snell was inspired to a dour comment...
...elusive news. The only tangible development was the decision by the "unity" group in the U. A. W. high command to make one more attempt to oust President Homer Martin and his "Progressives" at a special U. A. W. convention to be called by rank & file petition. But the terrific backstage struggle for union control appeared so significant that the country's No. 1 labor reporter, Louis Stark of the New York Times, went to Detroit for the entire week...
...There is no need to invoke emergency laws. Republican laws are sufficient to insure the security of the republican regime. The Government is in a position to thwart any criminal attempt against the Republic...
...Grover Whalen, its president, is quick to point out, the 1939 New York World's Fair is a bird of a very different color from the Paris Exposition. Instead of a government-conceived, directed and subsidized essay in national propaganda, it is a privately-conceived and financed attempt by New York businessmen to drum up new trade. Inspired by the success in this respect of the Chicago A Century of Progress in 1933-34, 118 leading New Yorkers in 1935 formed New York World's Fair 1939 Inc., a nonprofit, nonstock corporation whose officers get no remuneration...