Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S.R. will put all effort in seeing that the Marshall Plan is not realized...
...Communist effort, said Ramadier, is aimed at "social strife, collapse of production, monetary collapse and famine." The Premier reduced his Cabinet from 25 members to 12 - a move which he called "a concentration of Government authority." This was a concession to the Gaullist cry for efficient leadership, but Ramadier told off the General, too: "[He represents] an attempt to upset the institutions which the nation has freely chosen." Paul Ramadier was ready this week to ask the Assembly for a vote of confidence...
...government and school system. The elections to decide the future City Council and School Board have been campaigned on the basis of individual preference rather than party affiliation. With each candidate, excepting those men endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, conducting his own campaign, there has been no concerted effort to overcome voter inertia or crystallize important issues for the benefit of the electorate. The race for ballots seems to be diffused towards class bigotry and vicious recrimination while the vital questions remain securely muzzled...
...call "Socialistic trends" in Europe, this having reached a peak during discussion on the British loan. Congressional criticism of political trends in Western Europe has been especially directed at the British government, with allegations that it has not been able to get the people to make a maximum production effort, regardless of its political color...
...entire PBH program, manning the settlement houses began inauspiciously before the turn of the century when there was no central agency in the College to correlate scattered social consciences. Religious groups alone recruited contingents--for charitable work in the old Sailor's Home. By the Nineties duplication of effort brought amalgamation in the Student Volunteer Committee, which eventually called itself the Social Service Committee and took up its present quarters when Brooks House opened...