Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister said that he would attempt to define the attitude of His Majesty's Government. "I deliberately use the word 'attitude' rather than policy," he weightily continued, "because I cannot imagine that any event would change the fundamental basis of British foreign policy, which is the maintenance and preservation of peace and the establishment of a sense of confidence that peace will in fact be maintained...
...Lunatics, by Dr. Victor R. Small; produced by Cheryl Crawford). The theatre, having investigated slums, hospitals and prisons in recent years, last week turned its attention to an insane asylum. All the Living takes a steady, unhysterical look at the inside of an overcrowded, understaffed state institution, makes no attempt to prettify the facts, none to magnify the horrors. The mad, like the sane, have their differing personalities, and in an atmosphere vocally more suggestive of a bird shop than a human habitation. All the Living runs the gamut from a cheerful nut willing to swap the White House...
...Francisco the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Securities & Exchange Commission rule that the issuer of stock may not avoid registering it with SEC merely by limiting the offering to company stockholders. The case grew out of an attempt by small, unimportant Sunbeam Gold Mines Co., a Nevada corporation with headquarters in Tacoma. to sell unregistered securities by mail to its stockholders. SEC was pleased because it was the first time the matter had been considered by a court of appeals...
...Leftist forces close to the front last week was Chicago Daily News's Richard Mowrer, who later contrived to get the following out uncensored: "This correspondent saw the retreat of a whole division of Republican forces turn to flight-a flight which lasted ten hours before any visible attempt was made to check it. There were no officers in sight...
...League of Springfield, Mass., a local, conservative painter named Henry J. P. Billings* sent a strangely affecting picture, Opus No. 1. It was accepted. Artist Billings promptly got some publicity by resigning from the League. His explanation: Opus No. 1 was the result of a deliberate attempt to paint the worst picture, in drawing, design, color and technique, that his ingenuity could devise. "Juries," said Joker Billings, "should be selected who have background enough to distinguish good from bad in modern...