Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it came to viewing with alarm, the publishers found two infringements of liberty to condemn: the attempt of a National Labor Relations Board trial examiner to get accountings of articles in the St. Mary's (Pa.) Press and a magazine, Mill and Factory; the demands of the "Black Committee," now headed by Senator Sherman Minton, to examine private papers...
...seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons. But to many cinemagoers her primping, shimmy-shaking travesty on the leather-lunged school of hot-cha singing may seem less a parody than an amateur-hour attempt at something Ethel Merman can do much better...
From the first bully on, the Cambridge men will attempt to keep the ball rolling. However, they will be handicapped by their inexperience and unfamiliarity with the rules...
...finally scheduled to start May 2 in Manhattan. Three weeks ago the Department of Justice filed a petition to subpoena ALCOA's files on all transactions relating to its growth; seeking to limit the final trial to as few issues as possible, ALCOA promptly fought the attempt to make this a blanket case. Last week's hearings on this point, therefore, looked like the last skirmish before the trial...
...Edison Co. of New York. Thus underscored still again was the almost complete stagnation of U. S. money markets which has existed for the last six months. Financiers are agreed that needed expansion of industry cannot occur until this stagnation is ended. But underwriters generally are too scared to attempt the job. Last week Jesse Jones announced that RFC would shortly undertake to underwrite the underwriters with secured loans...