Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Diamond lines to determine whether he or Joe Ryan should rule the waves. First action took place in New York Harbor. Curran's seamen sat down on the Munson Liner Munargo until three A. F. of L. radio operators were replaced. This was followed by a similar attempt on the New York & Cuba Mail liner Oriente, but a flying wedge 'of A. F. of L. rushed the ship, seized the radio cabin, locked in three of their own operators. The Oriente's sailing had to be canceled...
Cinema, Arts will "attempt to do for the Cinema what FORTUNE has done for Industry." Its credo is "That . . . more than any other form of art expression, the Cinema reflects and interprets the changing moods, fashions and philosophies of the times." Its hope is "to 'freeze' on paper something of the fleeting beauty of the films. . . ." That Cinema Arts' hope was completely realized by its first issue last week was debatable. Much of what it had frozen on its 90 pages, well-cushioned with advertising at both ends, was routine pressagent photography. But the textual interpretations...
...reading list, in addition to promoting interest in the history of American civilization among students and others is to prove that an individual may continue his education throughout life by disciplined reading on an informal basis, according to President James B. Conant who initiated the plan. It is an attempt to counteract the idea that the only road to knowledge lies through formal instruction in regular college courses...
Without Ivy Lee's subtle guidance the Rockefeller giving might have been interpreted as a miser's attempt to ease his conscience-as indeed his early philanthropies were interpreted. The organization of philanthropy along strictly business lines, however, was a typical Rockefeller touch. Apart from any of his son's gifts...
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS (3 Vols.)-Pitirim A. Sorokin - American Book ($15). Herculean survey of world cultural changes in the last 2,500 years. An attempt by a Harvard sociologist, supported by data of 20 U. S. and European researchers, to invalidate and replace the revolutionary theories of Karl Marx, Spengler's gloomy outlook for Western civilization...