Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long-eared General Matsui, victorious, was asked by correspondents if he would now attempt to press Japan's advance to capture the Chinese capital of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, famed Nanking, some 200 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai. Said General Matsui softly: "You had better ask Chiang Kai-shek about future developments. Chiang is reported to have predicted a five-year war. Well, it might last that long. We do not know whether to go on to Nanking or not. It depends on Chiang...
...Majesty is known to anticipate no such war for at least another two years. The new Belgian foreign policy keynotes "Independence!" and by this the Government and King mean, and have given Belgium's solemn assurance, that Belgian forces will at once engage and fight any forces which attempt to pass over Belgium by air or by land to attack a country beyond. Moreover, Brussels will instantly warn London, Paris or Berlin if an air armada is heard approaching, and today the British public gratefully regard Belgium as their "listening post...
...Board, charged the New York Times with "coercion and interference with the organization of the employes." In Seattle a drawn-out strike against the Star was stalemated, a new strike against the Bayonne, N. J. Times was met with a drastic injunction forbidding every form of picketing and any attempt to influence other employes. But in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. the Guild won a notable victory as it ended a strike against the Record: effective Jan. 1 all editorial employes of all four Wilkes-Barre papers must hold Guild membership. The Wilkes-Barre settlement strongly contrasted with the Guild...
...take into due consideration the reproduction cost of the property. Since the new rates would reduce P. G. & E.'s revenue some $2,000,000, the company got an injunction which the California Railroad Commission appealed. The Federal Power Commission then intervened in the case to attempt to convert the Supreme Court to the "prudent investment" concept. This week, while the Court will be pondering the case, President Roosevelt will discuss his rate-making ideas at the White House with a platoon of potent powermen, as did Mr. Hoover...
...Barry Wood ended the game flat on his back under an avalanche of Yale players in a vain attempt to get a winning pass off. Albie Booth boosted a field goal which was enough to win the game. There were some who said Wood did not play such a good game. This subject can be taken up with Ted Husing who will be in the Stadium this afternoon...