Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally stung into action, Minor Statesman May protested that everything he had done had been "for the benefit of my constituents and the war effort and of course I did not profit in any way or respect." A little more to the point was a sharp reminder to Committee Chairman Mead that Andy May had testified before a closed committee last month...
...party that they still think for themselves. The militant members did not relish the idea of tame Communist participation in a government headed by moderate Georges Bidault. To appease this sentiment, the party's legislative leader Jacques Duclos (who knows better) permitted an all-out Communist effort to prevent the seating of certain Rightist deputies elected by the people...
When order was restored, the Assembly seated Dupont (vote 341-to-130) with only the Communists voting against him. A similar effort to unseat wartime Premier Paul Reynaud met a similar fate...
...Reds had been isolated on the kind of issue every French voter can understand-an effort to thwart the will of the electorate. Observers wondered whether Duclos would try again this week when the name of Edouard Daladier, who was also elected, comes...
...Maurice C. Benewitiz '47, chairman of the Harvard Affairs Committee of the Liberal Union, the group had obtained a five day permit to operate the booth, and since the City Manager's act on Tuesday, they have been actively investigating their rights in the matter. Along with the effort to get telegrams and postcards sent, they had been distributing a flyer around the Square calling attention to the booth and urging people to take part in a buyer's strike against higher prices...