Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister had tentatively agreed among themselves not to resign on March 4, no matter who is elected President. Secretary of State Kellogg refused to believe the report, but it came to the attention of President Coolidge. It seemed like stubborn insubordination to President Coolidge. He labeled it unconstitutional, an attempt of the "career" diplomats to make themselves a self-perpetuating group. He pointed out that the next President is privileged to appoint new diplomats even if the old diplomats do not resign...
...French and British governments in July. The results are these: the British government has assented to the French thesis that trained soldiers in reserve are not soldiers but "reservists" --not to be counted as soldiers in counting the French army--and agreed as well that through disarmament troaties no attempt should be made to 14mft submarines. And the French have agreed with the British that cruisers under 10,000 tons should also be limited...
Bert R. J. Hassell and Parker D. Cramer, Rockford, Ill., to Sweden flyers, long lost in Greenland, last week arrived by boat in Denmark, enthusiastic about Greenland as a way station for trans-Atlantic flyers, full of plans for another attempt...
...this election is supporting Mr. Hoover, I wish publicly to protest against the letter of the Moderator of the General Assembly calling on all members of the Presbyterian Church to support a particular candidate (TIME, Oct. 1). This is a flagrant instance of an ecclesiastic's attempt to drag the Church into politics. As a citizen Dr. Walker is within his rights in giving his public support to any candidate he pleases. As a Christian minister he is justified in urging the maintenance of prohibition as in his judgment the wisest method of safeguarding the sobriety of the nation...
...case it is bad taste, poor churchmanship and a misuse of the ministerial office to attempt to line up the Church for a political party and its candidate...