Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring this did not seem to be the case. Governor Furcolo had been roundly defeated by his own party on an attempt to initiate a state sales tax, and certain scandals in his administration were revealed. A floor fight for the Democratic Attorney General nomination had raised the issue of bossism and threatened to turn the Convention into a free-for-all. The Republicans were convinced that they had the issues and the candidate--George Fingold, the only man to survive the 1956 Democratic sweep...
Another debit is Furcolo's ineffectiveness as a party leader, shown by his inept attempt to institute a state sales tax. Also, corruption in the Department of Public Works has not been corrected. Furcolo is keeping out needed industry with his high tax policies and his insistence on a withholding tax; he foresees only an expansion of state expenditures in the future. It seems that neither Furcolo nor Gibbons has the potential to deal with the Massachusetts crisis...
...three agreed that a party similar to the Dixiecrat attempt in 1948 might grow out of Southern Democrats' resentment on the segregation issue...
...their very first session, the Tunisian delegates attacked "some Arab countries that attempt to dominate the league's meetings." In a huff, the Egyptian delegation walked out. Since this might be admitting that the charge was true and the shoe pinched, the Egyptians returned four days later, full of glossy assurances of "our brotherly relations with Tunisia and of sincere cordiality." But without quitting the Arab League, Tunisia took a further step last week: it broke off diplomatic relations with Cairo. Why the abrupt shift...
Clarke's first attempt fails (nothing comes easy to a Shute hero), and he returns exhausted to Pascoe's house in Buxton, broods over Pascoe's mementos, stumbles to Pascoe's bed in Pascoe's pajamas. He dreams and, through a not-too-convincing display of Shute magic, becomes transformed into the Johnny Pascoe of World War I: an ace in the air, a hellion on the ground, the lover and husband of Dancer Judy Lester. Clarke's next dream carries him, as Johnny Pascoe, through the years between the wars, disillusionment and divorce...