Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should inform the American people that, proud-as you should be proud-of the great moral and social advances which have been made under your leadership, you are willing now to consolidate these and attempt no more until your Cabinet, your Congressional leaders and you agree that the Nation can foot the bill...
...faces disbarment proceedings because of allegedly unprofessional remarks in court in opposing an injunction against the United Shoe Workers of America. According to the committee: "Mr. Lamb's remarks may call for an expression of apology to the court. They must not be made the excuse for an attempt to invade fundamental liberties...
Plans to reorganize the executive branch date back to the turn of the Century. Franklin Roosevelt's plan, introduced just before the scheme to enlarge the court, resembled one proposed by Herbert Hoover. Recognized for what it was-a straightforward attempt to increase efficiency-it occasioned little indignation. The President's subsequent sad effort to streamline the Supreme Court naturally made suspect his efforts to streamline anything else. As redrafted and passed by the Senate, the Reorganization Bill's principal provisions allowed the President to shift executive agencies with certain important exceptions, appoint one man to replace...
...Harvard Reds in their statement to the CRIMSON called Mayor Lyons' attack a "direct, if clumsy attempt to link the investigation of the activities of the Cambridge branch of the Young Communist League to the general offensive against the appointment of Granville Hicks...
Grand yesterday afternoon said, "The attempt of Mayor Lyons to connect Harvard students with the work of the Cambridge branch of the Young Communists League has no foundation in fact and is merely an attempt to further embarrass Harvard University because of their appointment of Granville Hicks...