Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back Door to Heaven (Odessco Productions, Paramount release) is an awkward attempt to crash the back door of the cinema industry. It is notable as the first effort of a new producing company headed by Bernard Steele and Stanley Odium (son of Investment Truster Floyd Bostwick Odium, whose Atlas Corp. has a large stake in Radio-Keith-Orpheum and who reportedly put up part of the $350,000 it cost to make the picture in Astoria...
Especial praise should be given Messrs. Bernstein and Fels for their attempt to report the recent Dunster House forum on public spending. In view of the intricacy of the subject and the diversity of the views expressed at the meeting, Messrs. Bernstein and Fels have done a fairly creditable job. The chief criticism to make of their report in the confusing way in which the two writers keep shifting back and forth between straight narrative and editorial comment, so that the reader never knows when to expect the words of Sweezy, Harris, or Gilbert, and when mere back-seat driving...
...attempt to end what has been described as "discrimination" between men nominated by the Council, and those named by petition, the list drawn up by the nominating committee will not be released until the end of a week during which the Council will accept nominations by petition bearing the signatures of 35 of the nominee's classmates...
...marks by February, reading class or no reading class. And the number of men who were involved was so small that any sweeping generalizations would be unsafe. But none the less, the Psycho-Educational Clinic has been encouraged this year to conduct larger, general reading examinations in an attempt to secure more comprehensive results; and although the records may not be made public until next fall, there is talk of further expansion...
Competition this weekend will be for the Morse Cup, the winner of which is recognized as intercollegiate dinghy champion. M.I.T., which won the prize last year, will attempt to defend its title against seven rivals...