Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morris' start, there were understandable qualms when the team of Chalkley and Lyon succeeded them. But affable Salesman Lyon soon rivaled his predecessors in cajoling dealers and salesmen ("My name is Lyon but I'm no wild animal. . . ."), and President Chalkley spurred the whole company to fresh endeavor by encouraging initiative rather than following able Mac McKitterick's policy of being a one-man arbiter of everything. He extended the bonus system to the whole company. As the only major executive in the country with leaf-buying, manufacturing and selling experience he was a logical choice...
...Party members in mass organizations [trade unions, farm and fraternal organizations, etc.] shall work jointly in a comradely manner to promote and strengthen the given organization. It shall be the duty of Party members ... to explain the mass policies of the Party and the principles of Socialism, to endeavor to win support for them, and they shall abide by the democratic decisions of the mass organizations...
...comes here to sojourn for a time in Stillman during his first month. It would not be conducive to joyful feelings even the most hearty. May I suggest to all those upperclassmen who have not outworn doing a daily good turn that here is a fruitful field of endeavor--a visit to an invalid Freshman would not be unappreciated, even by the most bilish. Charles H. Clark...
These outdoor concerts are unique in Harvard. More than any free concert on the Mall in New York, they are cosmopolitan. They bring together the whole community in an endeavor to grasp some of the fleeting beauty of the spring tide. There are no speculators hawking tickets on the fifty, for there are no seats. There is no wild cheering, no drunken shouting, only the bursting applause rings out under the trees to punctuate the intermission. What emotions rise in the hearts of the people are unexpressed, but taken away into the night to add to their sense of beauty...
...these committees is not primarily one of protest or criticism, but rather one of education and enlightenment. They will operate positively always, negatively only when the need so demands. . . . Good-will on both sides, negotiations conducted in an atmosphere of amity: these are the objectives. . . . The committees will endeavor to remove . . . blurred ideas on things Catholic; to demonstrate to owners, editors, reporters, columnists that the Catholic position on this or that question is much more reasonable than they ever suspected...