Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort was made to conceal the fact that this mass outing had any other than one principal purpose: to bring back to Washington a Party more united in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt. For by last week the President himself had registered the fact which observers had noted: that although he has not quarreled with his Party leaders, a rift has opened between them. First major cause of that rift was his Supreme Court enlargement proposal, which many did not like. Last week Washington was still shaking its head over the sharp words of the report with which the majority...
...steel operators and union leaders to see whether he could not settle the strike at Inland and Youngstown plants close to the Illinois line. This gesture accomplished nothing and Indiana's Governor pondered calling the Governors of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio to join him in a concerted effort...
Final break between King Carol and his violent-tempered brother (who was once accused of kicking a taxi driver in the pit of the stomach) occurred at a family dinner party in Bucharest's Cotroceni Palace where King Carol was making one more effort to persuade Prince Nicholas to abandon his commoner wife, the former Mme Jana Lucia Deletj. Present at the dinner were Queen Mother Marie, Prince Nicholas, Crown Prince Mihai. When Carol proposed a toast to his own red-haired commoner friend, Magda Lupescu, 15-year-old Crown Prince Mihai dropped his champagne glass on the floor...
Some economists believe that the next great credit expansion will blow out in installment paper, just as in the last boom it blew out in stock market loans. Pointing out the political problem involved in any future effort to restrict consumer credit, the New York Stock Exchange firm of Biggs, Mohrman & Co. lately observed in a thoughtful little pamphlet called The Next. Boom & Collapse...
...problem is certainly not solved by the Riverside addition, although the University is to be commended for bringing into use all available facilities. For this effort, credit is due, but not credit for victory. For those outside there is no victory yet, not even the stop-gap consolation of House library, dining hall, and common room privileges. For them remains only the vague, unsatisfying hope for better treatment in the future...