Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Cordell Hull last summer put strong moral pressure on manufacturers and exporters in a partially successful attempt to shut off sales of American military planes and serial bombs to Japan, it was revealed today...
...friends. Soon after dinner they all took sick. Doctors were summoned and found the food had been poisoned. All the diners survived. Last week news of the poison plot leaked out through diplomatic channels when British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax sent Colonel Songgram official British condolences over the "cowardly attempt of an individual or individuals to destroy the lives" of the Premier and his dinner party...
Curator MacLeish also noted that: 1) no attempt is made to teach journalism as such; 2) the Fellowships are still "experimental"; 3) "The assumption that journalists with questions to ask may properly be allowed to dispense with ordinary scholastic requirements has not as yet been overthrown...
...student Opinion Surveys of America for the first time point out what the collegians have to say in all sections of the country. Although when the results are taken nationally one student in every ten says there has been some attempt to influence him, the poll reveals that student bodies in the West and South are very seldom approached with such propaganda...
...staff of interviewers have asked this question to a carefully selected cross-section of students of all descriptions: "Has any attempt been made on your campus to influence you with communism, socialism, or fascism?" By geographical sections, they have answered: Yes No New England 8.2% 91.8% Middle Atlantic 19.5% 80.5% East Central 12.2% 87.8% West Central 4.2% 95.8% Southern 5.2% 94.8% Far Western...