Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort, however, was worth it since large numbers of men are reported to flash the hash whenever they see the word "spinach," whereas the "Spanish" only causes the readers of the "Nation" any gastronomic trouble...
...depend for operating efficiency on a relatively small number of the larger cities. A campaign Which would result in public ownership in ten to 20 of these cities might practically destroy the ability of the large systems to render maximum service or to maintain economical generation and transmission systems. Effort to bring about such disruption seems to be under way. . . . Private companies should cease coercion, in the form of obstructive litigation, inaccurate and misleading propaganda. . . . Public officials should cease coercion, as by subsidies to duplicating and competing systems, by threats of constructing duplicating systems...
Champagne Waltz (Paramount). The perennial and expensive effort to make a Grace Moore out of Gladys Swarthout seemed to have more logic some time ago when Miss Moore was a more important box-office draw. This version of the endeavor is a heavy-footed musical naively designed to combine the best features of jazz with those of the Viennese waltz. It concerns one Buzzy Bellew (Fred MacMurray), leader of a swing band which, reaching Vienna in a continental tour, ruins the business of the Franz & Elsa Strauss Waltz Palace. In the U. S. consulate, Elsa (Gladys Swarthout), who has gone...
Like Black Fury and I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Black Legion makes no effort to mollify its message. Robert Lord's vigorous story investigates the Legion from three angles: its effect on Tay lor, its purpose of making money for a crew of cold-blooded organizers, and its own mob activities of night raids, arson, beatings and finally murder. When fear of the police has forced. Taylor to kill his best friend, the picture comes to a climax in a courtroom sequence which achieves a new high for judicial severity on the screen. Good shot...
...frequently asserted charge that the Commission was both judge and prosecutor, and hence in no position to make an impartial decision, he declared that the Commission made every effort to be just, and that in the final analysis no alternative offered itself. If judgments were to be rendered by depart the result, and, if matters were in the hands of the courts, decisions in various localities would vary...