Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally a preacher for the Disciples of Christ, a Middle Western faction, he later associated himself with Huey Long. Father Charles E. Coughlin, and Charles A. Lindbergh in an effort to "maintain a government... which abuses no minority and is abused by no minority...
Secretary of State George Marshall had returned from Moscow reciting the story of the Soviet effort to seize the economy of Central Europe, of the Soviet Union's negation of every U.S. effort to make that economy selfsupporting. His references to Stalin's bland remarks about reaching ultimate agreements (TIME, May 5) were deadpan; Marshall himself reflected little optimism...
...still an overall policy to be made. That policy had to be measured against the background of the nation's adventures in foreign affairs since the end of the war. One fact seemed to have emerged already: seldom in world history had there been such an earnest effort to plant peace and seldom had a policy been based on such a grave miscalculation...
...farming at Hiawatha, Kans., John M. Davis accumulated a half million dollars and a long white beard. He also developed a turned-down nose, a turned-down mouth and a suspicious and belligerent eye. John M. Davis had a problem and he wrestled with it morning, noon & night. The effort gave him a mean look...
...hours of this kind of frenzied anthologizing, however well meant, are exhausting. It is often said in defense of such musical popularization that it serves to interest many people in good music who might never otherwise learn to care for it. It might also be suggested that the effort could frighten many potential music lovers away...