Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspend their 5? monthly dues to C.I.O.-a move highly ominous if Homer Martin succeeds in retaining control of his 400,000-member union. Having lavished on steel and textile organization and on politics a great part of the reserve funds of his own United Mine Workers (the unsuccessful attempt to nominate U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy for Governor of Pennsylvania cost C.I.O. and U.M.W. a whacking $503,000), Mr. Lewis is confronted by the fact that President David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, C.I.O.'s best-heeled union, has threatened to walk out unless...
...trade union setup separate from the Socialist or Communist parties who eagerly look to it for votes. Last week M. Jouhaux, visiting in the U. S., announced that so long as "repeal" of the 40-hour law is excluded and its "principle" maintained, French Labor will not attempt to bar modifications...
...years ago Alfred Noyes, a Catholic of eleven years' standing, wrote an able biography, Voltaire, published in the U. S. and England by Sheed & Ward, a distinguished Catholic firm. Author Noyes made no attempt to whitewash the corruptions, ecclesiastical and otherwise, of Voltaire's time; he agreed with Voltaire's observation that "to receive the Host from certain hands would be like swallowing a spider." Author Noyes did aim, however, to prove by Voltaire's own statements that he was by no means the cynical atheist he is commonly considered; that he was, in fact...
Jane Toppan was a trained nurse from 1892 to 1901, reputed the best in Cambridge. Her specialty was poisoning. Her first attempt, upon a fellow nurse in Massachusetts General Hospital in 1886, was unsuccessful. Thereafter she seldom failed. Born Honora Kelly, daughter of a loony sot called "Kelly the Crack," she poisoned Captain & Mrs. Abner Toppan of Lowell, who had adopted her. She poisoned Mrs. Myra Connors, matron of Episcopal Theological School in 'Cambridge, in order...
Last year the coral-pink prettiness of the Bermuda Islands attracted 79,856 visitors. Of these, well over 90% were Americans, but only 1,088 tourists sailed there on U. S. ships. Early this year, in an attempt to divert U. S. tourist dollars into U. S. pockets, Eastern Steamship Lines decided to run the steamer Acadia (cruise capacity 400) on a weekly schedule to Bermuda, competing chiefly with the British-owned Furness Bermuda Line...