Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hepburn, off again was Corrigan, his crate loaded with 320 gallons of gasoline, apparently headed for home to get his nickel back. But instead of heading West, the blind nose of his old ship aimed East, picked up the Lindbergh trail. Year before he had applied for permission to attempt an ocean night, but the Bureau of Air Commerce cracking down on stunt flying, refused...
...time the President can't knock you out, you're all right!" was "Happy" Chandler's attempt at cheerfulness after Franklin Roosevelt had departed. But that night at Bowling Green, in praising Kentucky's other Senator, Marvel Mills Logan, for standing "square like a rock" on a certain occasion, the President dealt the young Governor a painful backhand blow. Senator Logan explained that on the occasion referred to. "Happy" Chandler had gone to the White House with the proposal that Senator Logan be made a Federal judge so that Chandler could go to the Senate without...
Worshipful reminiscences by Edison's Canadian-born private secretary, with many after-dinner anecdotes, with illuminating but fragmentary accounts of the attempt by German financiers to capture control of the infant electric industry...
...Pont Heiress Mrs. Randolph Scott. Accompanied by fortune telling, dancing and sideshows, the horses (mostly nags borrowed from white employers) are a minor attraction, often compete against mules. Prizes are bushels of oats, hand-me-down automobiles, whatever the committee can round up. Usually there is no attempt...
Vast United Corp. owns an agglomeration of investments in power properties scattered all over the East. Formed by the Morgan-Bonbright-Drexel interests in 1929, it marked the return of J. P. Morgan & Co. from pure banking to promotional activities. Because United Corp. does not attempt to influence the operating policies of its affiliated power companies, it is a favorite of utility operating men. But this makes no difference to SEC. For, though power companies require heavy capitalizations that make financiers their logical bosses, SEC believes that systems of operating companies pyramided to a peak in Wall Street offer...