Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort expended and the results obtained reflect great credit to the University as a whole. Thanksgiving baskets for poor families, Christmas parties for children in Cambridge, work done in boys clubs in Boston, and many other similar activities do immense good and aid many people in times of strain. Phillips Brooks was known for his charitable efforts; members of the Institution which was organized in his memory and bears his name have carried on nobly...
...them voted to support the League up to the hilt. Well aware of these figures, Liberals and Laborites united in heckling the Conservative Government with demands for stiffer Sanctions. Last week Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite Leader in Commons, popped off to Paris in an effort to persuade Socialist Leon Blum to come out strongly for a continuation of Sanctions (see below). He was promptly followed by Conservative Earl Winterton who rushed to Premier Sarraut, urged him to keep on demanding the end of Sanctions...
...ceremony in Stockholm, Yeats saw with dismay that the recipients, after going down from the platform to receive their medals from the King, had to walk backwards up the steps again. Most of them sidled up, half-turned; when it came Yeats's turn he made a great effort, clambered up carefully, straight backward. "As the cheering grows much louder when I get there, I must have roused the sympathy of the audience...
...effort to save the remnants of the League, Anthony Eden and Stanley Baldwin met on Gloomy Sunday with a group of Foreign Office experts. It was almost certain that smaller nations would refuse to go on with Sanctions against Italy. Yet if the League Covenant were revamped to do away with Article XVI, which authorized the use of force in applying Sanctions, then the League could continue as an amiable debating society, publishing valuable works on the extent of white slavery, the opium traffic, and the migration of whales...
Nevertheless, moderate Mr. Sibley could not prevent the convention from turning into a rousing Republican rally. The one successful effort on the part of the "constructive" minority to give the meeting a semblance of significance was a strategem concocted by Chicago's John William O'Leary, head of the Machinery & Allied Products Institute. He hastily released the Chamber's plan for a national survey to determine "our re-employment possibilities with a degree of accuracy which cannot be equaled in any other way." This was the first official reply of organized business to President Roosevelt...