Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straits of Election Year, between the Rock of Taxes and the Whirlpool of Deficit, he realized last week that it would require serious effort on his part to find a safe political passage. Secretary Morgenthau conferred with him nearly every day. Budget Director Bell, Secretaries Wallace and Ickes, Assistant WPAdministrator Williams, RFChairman Jones, Rexford G. Tugwell, Chester Davis, Housing Administrator McDonald came & went. It would be safer to steer a little toward the Rock of Taxes, for the Congressional current would suck him back anyway to the Whirlpool. Hence he confirmed the fact that he would ask about half...
...outright abandonment of the projects concerned, that the money might be included in a Deficiency Bill "before adjournment." Senator Fletcher, now a defender of the canal whether he likes it or not, roared that the committee had "played into the hands of the Republicans," said he would make every effort to have the $29,000,000 promptly restored by amendment...
...this time Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria went about Paris with utmost decorum, accepted his entourage of detectives with no effort either to entertain or to elude them, and moved Parisian Bulgarians to cry: "Every inch a Tsar! Long live His Majesty...
...mere diversion from more serious affairs. It fits into the Nazi creed of Strength through Joy. The religious intensity with which up-to-date Nazis have accepted this nebulous idea can be perceived in the enthusiasm with which groups of healthy young Germans roll down practice slopes in the effort to learn how to ski, in the amazingly extensive methods by which Germany's Olympic Committee, functioning under Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten, has prepared for the 1936 Olympic Games, and in the extraordinary career of one of Germany's most celebrated cinemactresses. If President Hoover...
...have the students select those needing such a course would be impolitic and impractical. Instead Professor Packard might himself attend lectures, and choose the delinquents; his censure would have the force of authority and should agitate the offenders into some effort to mend their faults...