Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editors Attempt Compromise
...Pinchot. Mr. Pinchot pointed out that when he was Governor there had been no head-bashing, or any other disorder, in the coal fields. "To do justice," he said, "means that the state must neither harass capital nor bludgeon labor. . . . There has been little attempt by the government to harass employers. . . . To bludgeon labor is little short of idiocy...
...oratory. Wrote Mr. Hobbs: "... A curious compound of audacity and folly, like a child who would make a plaything of the serpent's rattle. His mind does not realize probable results. Emerging from perfect obscurity by the criminal court route, carrying with him the odium of an indignant attempt on the part of the Senate to expel him-he went before the people to tell a story in which his own part had been one of infamy. He assumed the role of martyr. ... I stood by him with such loyalty as only a young man of unshattered ideals...
...trial began with an unsuccessful attempt by the defense to prove the incompetency of the court. It was urged that the country was not legally under martial law, it being unconstitutional to keep it in a state of siege when there was no danger of foreign invasion, and that, therefore, the trial should go to a civil court before a jury. M. Carapancea, military prosecuting attorney, pleaded the contrary case, and the court came to the conclusion that the government was within its rights in declaring martial...
Observers saw an attempt on General Obregon's life by the political opposition driven under cover by the failure of the recent revolt (TIME...