Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, C. I. O.'s attempt to exorcise Mayor Hague. One of the chief legal problems in fighting Mayor Hague is difficulty of getting arrested in Jersey City. Anyone the Mayor considers undesirable is simply bundled out of town, and for years Arthur Garfield Hays has been battling for the "Constitutional right of every American to be arrested." Last week in Manhattan several days before the great rally, while Mr. Hays was delivering a radio attack on Mayor Hague over station WEVD, an unidentified young woman, passing as a reporter, slipped into the studio. Edging up to the speaker...
...Barit's action was certainly not the familiar automotive stunt of changing a few gadgets as an excuse for lowering a car's price. The Hudson 112 is a bona fide new car. Nonetheless motormen generally regarded it as primarily an attempt to snare a market which has balked at high prices. How successful it will be remains to be seen, but last week it had President Roosevelt's blessing...
...payment of the soldiers' bonus in 1936, which accentuated inflationary sentiment that got out of bounds in the spring of 1937, drove prices and inventories too> high. As contributory factors he mentioned strikes, increased operating costs of railroads, lack of expansion by utilities and, finally, the attempt of the Govern-ment to reduce its contribution to consumer spending power. Said he: "Monopolistically controlled prices and wages which are now too high must be lowered and prices and wages which are too low, in relation to consumer purchasing power, must be raised...
Priestley; produced by Crosby Gaige). Author John Boynton Priestley is a blunt Yorkshireman who has written several popular books, of late years has turned to playwriting. Three of his plays are currently on the London stage. Last week one of them,*another attempt to dramatize that old riddle, time, failed to impress Manhattan audiences either as drama or as metaphysics. Time and the Conways was like a heavy slab of Yorkshire pudding with no roast beef...
...most pleasant places in which the Vagabond has found to study is the Sociology Library on the second floor of Emerson Hall. He discovered it the other day in an attempt to locate some of the volumes which he understood were to have something to do with his midyear exam in Sociology...