Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comptroller Kohler was a natural for the assignment. A 55-year-old Michigan-born accountant (from Tom Dewey's home town of Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...
...wise docent makes it clear at the start that "unfortunately there are no 'ten easy lessons,' no short cuts to developing a mature response to art." If his audience snickers in front of a picture or sculpture, the docent may attempt to restore the dignity of the occasion by quoting Director Alfred Barr Jr.'s neatly apologetic dictum: "We try to collect and exhibit whatever painting seems creatively significant; and if in the course of time one or two choices out of ten prove worthy, I believe the general selection is justified." That line is no help...
Gene Autry prepared to make some cinema history himself. He was about to attempt a picture entirely without his horse...
...purpose here to turn prophet . . ." Replied Major Bagrov: "I didn't mean that at all ... and General Stalin has announced that with a definite will on both sides, both the Socialist and the Capitalist systems can and must exist together . . . I will now attempt to change the wording." His final title, to which the others assented: "The Dangers of Crises in the Capitalist Economy...
...what the dissenting minority called "the most important antitrust case which has been before the court in years," the U.S. Supreme Court last week assayed the question. By a 5-to-4 vote it turned down the Justice Department Antitrust Division's attempt to prevent the sale of Los Angeles' Consolidated Steel Corp. to Columbia Steel Co., a subsidiary of U.S. Steel...