Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Librarian Denys P. Myers of Boston to Governor Leverett Saltonstall, who last week hastened to inform his Legislature. In 1790, when Amendments I to X to the Constitution were submitted to Massachusetts for ratification, "your honorable predecessors," said Governor Saltonstall, "failed to act because they became involved in an attempt to propose even more inclusive definitions of the rights of the people." Governor Saltonstall suggested that the forefathers' oversight be rectified on or about the Bill of Rights' 139th birthday, March...
...Contares of Venezuela offered to give land for a Catholic college as soon as U. S. bishops furnish priests. On the other hand, South Americans resent U. S. Protestant proselytizing, deplore the fact that, instead of going after the pagan and the unchurched, U. S. missionaries (except the Episcopalians) attempt to convert good Roman Catholics to Protestantism...
...taken and developed through the ingenious use of technical devices into a powerful and moving drama. This is not to say that from a purely artistic point of view, "Trade Winds" is in a class with its predecessor, for it is not; but on the other hand this latest attempt will doubtless be even more popular because of the delightful humor that has been skillfully interwoven with the story. Fredric March, as Sam Wye, expert detective, is put on the trail of Joan Bennett, murderess, because of his peculiar fascination for beautiful women. Constantly harassed by Ann Sothern...
PERPIGNAN--Insurgent warships headed by the cruiser Canarias appeared off the French coast tonight, supposedly to intercept Loyalist officials if they should attempt to reach Valencia...
...hrer included : 1) warning Western nations not to interfere in "matters concerning us alone" [i.e., pogroms]; 2) denouncing the Jews and Bolshevism; 3) claiming no one is persecuted for purely religious beliefs in Germany; 4) hailing the Rebel successes in Spain as a "valiant defeat of the newest universal attempt to destroy the European cultured world"; 5) notifying the U. S. to keep her hands off German trade with South America...