Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumors that the C. I. O. will attempt to organize the rest of Harvard's employees, following the A. F. of L's success with the dining hall staff, appear to be groundless. The consensus of opinion among the janitors and sweepers is that a union would not be of much use in the University...
...Schulte's new Manhattan "specialty shops" are really an attempt to brighten up the old 5?-to-$1 idea. To avoid burning his fingers again, David Schulte is making the transition slowly, has imported Stanley Roth, slick merchandiser, from the Golden Rule Department Store in St. Paul, Minn., made him a vice president. Said Mr. Roth: "I think most persons will be surprised at the large number of things we can get into a relatively small store." Most persons who visited the sample Schulte store at Manhattan's 86th Street & Broadway were surprised. Mr. Roth had filled...
...unions, quietly opened a free experimental school for workers in Fordham University's Woolworth Building quarters. To the press rushed Rev. Ignatius Wiley Cox, Fordham professor of ethics and loud foe of birth control and the press, to announce that Fordham was starting "the first attempt to interpret workers' problems by other than Marxian theories." Text for the courses, in which 100 unionists had enrolled last week, will be the encyclicals on labor by Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI. The school will uphold the right to strike, condemn violence and class warfare, have as instructors...
Fundamental mistake of Western man. says Lin Yutang. is his attempt to find out where the spirit begins and the flesh leaves off. Having abandoned a missionary's career when he saw this fallacy, Author Lin now regards any attempt to separate the two as "confusing, unintelligible and untrue." "Happiness for me," he says, "is largely a matter of digestion. ... I would prefer pork to poetry, and would waive a piece of philosophy for a piece of filet...
Hard-working John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England, is famed for such narrative poems as The Everlasting Mercy and Reynard the Fox, has written 42 books of poetry, plays and fiction, has never achieved a first-rate novel. His latest attempt is neither satire, soufflé nor good red socialist herring, but a baffled British book...