Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politically the New Deal represents an attempt to place 51% of the nation's voters on the Government payroll, and thus to perpetuate the Roosevelt dynasty...
...canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
...failures was to get the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. business. On this attempt, strangely, he was accompanied by his father's bitter political critic, Congressman Hamilton Fish, a director of one of the insurance companies represented by Jimmy. Loud Mr. Fish did the talking and President Walter S. Gifford of A. T. & T. was not helpful...
...further strain., Additional sections of the National Mobilization act, which places the nation on war footing, were invoked, to ration war essentials, curtail imports except war materials, control commodity prices. New War Minister Seishiro Itagaki gloomily admitted: "The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his lifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. Consequently, it is necessary that the Japanese resolve to continue fighting at least ten years." The Imperial Council will meet soon for the sixth time in the nation's history, and for the second time...
...large chart, showing the operations of the spy net which G-men and U. S. Attorney Lamar Hardy have been trying to net since February (TIME, May 30). The hunt began when an American Army deserter of Austrian parentage, brush-headed Guenther Gustave Rumrich, was arrested in a clumsy attempt to steal passport blanks. He promptly implicated several German-Americans in attempts to steal Army aircraft designs and military secrets. Five days after looking at the chart, the Grand Jury returned indictments in the most serious charges of espionage ever made by the U. S. against a friendly power...