Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...isolationists: "It is our clear duty to further every effort toward peace but at the same time to protect our nation. . . . Such protection is and will be based not on aggression but on defense...
Tape-Cutting. Statesman van Zeeland knows that every effort thus far to secure international economic collaboration has bogged down in a quagmire of "preliminary negotiation," "'fact finding" and "research by official experts." Therefore last week he emphasized that "on most of the points . . . prolonged studies have been undertaken," and therefore "plans for putting them into effect could be quickly drawn up with the assistance of specialized organs such as the Economic and Financial Committees of the League of Nations, the Bank for International Settlements, the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Institute of Agriculture, et cetera...
...surrounded by khaki-coated gendarmes with rifles, searchlights, tear bombs. All through the night they besieged it. Every time a policeman's blue cap appeared, the Widow Corneuil or one of her sons took a shot at it. Next morning one brave gendarme volunteered to make a last effort to persuade the Widow Corneuil to surrender. Again a shot. He twisted on his heel and dropped dead. The siege continued...
...Rheims, a battle-scarred holder of the Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor. He is the sort of man sound men call sound. Even so, on international exchange the franc remained weak while France sat tight in the badly rocked boat of her political equilibrium. For despite every effort made by all parties concerned to conceal it, the Popular Front of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists was in a state of disintegration, and the chances of its long survival seemed slim. In his ministerial declaration Premier Chautemps frankly confessed that he headed a "transition government...
From Paramount Pictures' publicity department: "Gary Cooper sent one of his shirt tails to a Ladies' Aid Society in Rapid City, S. D., in response to the following letter: 'In an effort to raise money for the church, we are making ladies' kitchen aprons out of shirt tails of noted men. We would appreciate it very much if you would be good enough to send us one of your shirt tails. We thank you very much and hope to be able to reciprocate some time...