Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reserve account to three times the maximum yearly benefit payments expected in the next five years. The conferees on the bill finally killed the most controversial amendment, a proposal by Texas' Tom Connally that the Government match the States two dollars for one up to $15, an attempt to help poor States live up to pension promises...
...School's Dean James M. Landis, sitting as special examiner by the very special request of Secretary of Labor Perkins. Since Mr. Shoemaker had no direct evidence that Bridges actually belonged to the Communist Party when the complaint was filed (March 2, 1938), his only recourse was an attempt to show circumstantially that Defendant Bridges thought, talked, acted like a Communist who advocates forceful overthrow of the U. S. Government...
...Hardwicke). Actor Tracy does not scamp his historic line. Then, in a scene of muted emotional power, Stanley learns that old Dr. Livingstone, whom the world believes to be either dead or the hostage of some savage tribe, is happily busy with God's work, adamant against any attempt to "rescue...
...Deal Ideas. In 1932 Wendell Willkie gave $150 to the Roosevelt campaign fund. The time came when he announced that he would like to have it back, but that was later. For Willkie and Roosevelt had quite a few ideas in common. Willkie made no attempt to hide his opinion that business had sinned in 1929 and should take its punishment. He plumped for Federal regulation of holding companies, conceded that utilities that bought Federal power should be subject to Federal regulation of rates...
When the A. F. A. members had departed, an accountant testified that the A. F. A. benefits had profited its out-of-work members nothing, cited other figures in an attempt to show that its financial methods were careless. Two swimmers, a dancer and a show girl from Billy Rose's Aquacade at the New York World's Fair, which the A. F. A. had been supposed to organize, vowed that A. F. A. had double-crossed them in a tiff with Mr. Rose over salary and rehearsal...