Word: exertions
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...Eagle-Lion) is a semi-documentary about a couple of U.S. Treasury agents on the trail of a counterfeit gang. It was obviously put together without much time or money to spare, and as often happens under such circumstances, vitality and unpretentiousness get a chance to exert themselves. The result is a nice, brisk, intelligent little B-plus melodrama, far more real and entertaining than the general run. Chief credits go to Players Dennis O'Keefe, Wally Ford and Alfred Ryder (Broadway's blooming June Lockhart is also present), to Writer John C. Higgins and Director Anthony Mann...
...dictatorship which forbids freedom of speech, you have revealed to me the whole picture of your miseries. In your distress you came to me. Answering your appeal, I accept the mission which you entrust to me and I am ready to contact the French authorities. I shall exert the full weight of my authority to mediate in the conflict which has put you one against the other...
...Democratic education must not only be democratic, it must be education. It does not follow that because the Common Man has been lifted into control, that he is automatically made competent to exert control. When the Common Man was thus suddenly liberated, what he needed . . . was such education as would enable him to understand what hitherto only the controlling few had been encouraged to try to understand, the nobler and wiser aims of the race, those visions which dictate the ethical foundations of a sound society...
...highly specialized mine fields there was little chance that the operators could exert their legal right to hire new men to mine the coal, even if they dared. Other labor leaders, who knew that John Lewis was not loony, watched carefully...
...Marshall proposals, so far as the total European economy is concerned, is great. But the greater danger is the far more dangerous, and more probable, chance that the plans will never win Capitol Hill, or the nation. There is the possibility that the voters, if sufficiently aroused, could exert enough pressure to obtain the money necessary to implement the proposals the President's advisers, and the European statesmen, are considering; but the plan must be sold first, and few real attempts in that direction have been made. To convince a people already groaning under their tax load that even more...