Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Party, the Democratic Party or the New Deal Party or any other party," rumbled North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, "caters to the Negro vote, it is going to elect to office common fellows of the baser sort." But when Kenneth McKellar began scornfully quoting from the bill in an effort to establish its unconstitutionality, Senator Wagner pointed out that the passage in question was a quotation from the Fourteenth Amendment. "Yes," stammered Senator McKellar...
...scheduled talks in London this week with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mr. MacDonald is of course to attempt conciliation. Success will be hard to achieve, but optimists recalled that away back in 1921 the British Government, then headed by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, declared that "any effort to induce Ulster [Northern Ireland] to unite with the rest of Ireland will have our benevolent neutrality." After Mr. Lloyd George had had a little more contact with Mr. de Valera, the Welshman observed: "Negotiating with that Irishman is like trying to scoop up mercury with a fork...
...there will, of course, be those who have so wisely resolved their problem of employment that it would be presumptuous to solicit their further attention. But there are those, on the other hand, who for one reason or another accept such proffered employment hastily and with little or no effort to appraise its nature or its consequences...
...Alumni Placement Office is another source of information. Whether or not the issue be placement, a senior or underclassman who can have a job for the asking when he graduates is welcome to come here to discuss the factors which should govern his decision. No effort will be made to reach any conclusions for him, nor will he be persuaded against his will even to consider other employment than that which has been offered...
...effort to liberalize the Supreme Court, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last year split the Democratic Party with the bitterest political fight of the century. That the fight was a blunder became apparent last summer when the President lost it. That it was also totally unnecessary became apparent last week when Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland called reporters into his office to show them a letter he had just sent the President. The letter: ". . . Being eligible for retirement under the Sumners Act ... I hereby retire from regular active service on the bench, this retirement to be effective . . . the 18th day of January...