Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Directors Morgan and Lilienthal, meeting according to custom as a quorum in Chairman Morgan's absence, agreed to have the value of the claims adjudicated by a special "conciliator" instead of by a condemnation commission. They capitulated when Chairman Morgan, who asserted that the claims represented a bald attempt to "defraud" the Government, got Secretary Ickes to refuse the loan of Director John W. Finch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines as conciliator, insisted on a condemnation commission. When last week, nearly three months after the start of hearings during which witnesses for the Berry interests presented evidence...
...claim to be a better friend of the League of Nations than some of those who speak for it! The League today is mutilated, halt and maimed, and those who like me to do my best to build it up are serving it better than those who would attempt to put on it in its present state tasks which are manifestly beyond its strength...
...Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none of the younger generation has done more than he for the recognition of German music throughout the world." Since then, Kulturbolschewist Hindemith, though he still lives in suburban Berlin, has had to go abroad to hear or perform...
...died Sept. 26, 1936). Although that story was the climax of her career, it made up the dullest chapters of her book. Long (488 pages), overcrowded with the names of poets, A Poet's Life seems both tired and genteel, as if Harriet Monroe had made a last attempt to make her vehement, impoverished, helter-skelter poets intelligible and respectable to plain middleclass, middle-Western citizens, but found their careers as contradictory as their poems...
Still suffering with an infected foot, Sophomore Charlie Lutz will be unable to join his Crimson mates in tonight's attempt to avenge the Eli defeat. In his place will probably be Arnie Litman, a flashy Senior who has been on the verge of brilliancy in several appearances this year...