Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remarks on the subject might not be printable, proceeded to issue an extraordinary written statement for quotation: "I was very much disturbed . . . because a Congressional committee charged with the responsibility of investigating un-American activities should have permitted itself to be used in a flagrantly unfair and un-American attempt to influence an election. . . . On the threshold of a vitally important gubernatorial election, they permitted a disgruntled Republican judge, a discharged Republican city manager and a couple of officious police officers to make lurid charges against Governor Frank Murphy.'' Mr. Roosevelt then complimented the Governor for postponing forcible...
...will never attempt to solve the colonial problem by military force," barked General von Epp. "When Hitler told Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, and again at Godesberg, that the colonial question remained a problem, he officially opened the negotiations. Our claim is to all our former colonies. Whether, when the actual moment for bargaining for them comes, we shall show restraint is for the future to decide. If we do, then we shall demand compensation for whatever we do not claim...
...Trophy for the fourth time under her skipper, Captain Angus Walters, a peppery old salt. The challenger, Gertrude L. Thebaud (named after the wife of a Gloucester summer resident who put up most of the $78,000 necessary to build her eight years ago), was making her second attempt to regain the trophy-with Captain Ben Pine at the wheel...
...orphic language and with copybook maxims, they all attempt the peculiarly American feat of relating the arcane and the infinite with dollar-&-cents success. Some New Thought member organizations: the League for Larger Life; Unity (TIME, July 25); Divine Science; the Fellowship of Life Abundant...
Charging that Plan E is an un-American attempt to destroy democratic government and is fostered by the "Brattle Street minority" and "learned intellectuals" at Harvard, five speakers demanded that Cambridge voters quash the proposal for a city manager at the election next Tuesday...