Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would-be assassins were disgruntled agents of the Dictator's own dread secret police, the Gay-pay-oo. They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from shore to safety. The other attempt to assassinate Stalin, according to the State, was made near Gagry, in 1935, by a group of prominent local Communist officials who were armed with an automatic rifle, a German carbine and a revolver. They failed because the Dictator chanced to be driven past the point at which these Communists were going...
...cold night in January 1919, eight reckless Tennessee soldiers (one of them Colonel Luke Lea. Nashville publisher who later went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Asheville, N. C. Central Bank & Trust Co. of over $1,300,000) failed in a self-appointed, harebrained attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm from his Netherlands retreat. Censured by General John J. Pershing. they swore among themselves not to tell their story for 15 years. Three weeks ago the Saturday Evening Post featured their escapade as told to Truman Hudson Alexander, veteran Nashville Teunessean columnist who had diligently tried since 1934 to ferret...
Soma Weiss, associate professor of Medicine, and also a member of the group backing the proposals, told the CRIMSON that he regarded them as "an attempt to talk over problems" that face medicine and the public, and it is to be "hoped that some good will come out of" the "principles and proposals." "It is no revolutionary thing," he said...
...Said Chairman Edward T. Taylor of the potent House Appropriations Committee last week: "I do not think there is any question but that the insiders in Wall Street brought on the present situation in an attempt to embarrass the Roosevelt administration." *Fast on its feet for once, the New York Stock Exchange month ago began a study of daily average short sales in A.T. & T., General Motors, S.O.N.J., New York Central. U. S. steel, last week announced that so far they were only 22.7% of the total...
...Progressive" Education. '"I cannot reconcile myself to a primary education which equips a child with the Eskimo technique of making a snow-house, but does not teach him how to spell. . . . Man has to earn his intellectual bread by the sweat of his brow. Why should primary education attempt to convert our children into little lotus-eaters...