Word: strove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley Baldwin in an effort to split the party on the India Constitution Bill (TIME, Feb. 9, 1931 et scq.). This Gargantuan measure now having been passed, ''Winnie" Churchill last week abruptly returned to the Baldwin fold, pledged ''whole hearted" support to the Government and strove to bandage his self-inflicted political wounds by the clarion announcement: "Dangers larger and nearer than Indian dangers gather on our path. . . . We have to play our part...
...terrible weeks Senator Robinson strove doggedly to save the President's $4,880,000,000 relief bill from the attacks of conservatives who wanted to reduce the appropriation, from radicals who wanted to force the payment of union wages on relief projects. The bill was nearly cut to ribbons under his feet, when Vice President Garner went to his aid, suggested that it would be better to send the mangled measure back to committee for repairs and later slide it through in a cooler hour-a trick which worked...
Meanwhile the official Press strove last week to slow down Russia's present race for divorces. Thundering against Bolshevik fathers and mothers who were jamming the Zags, the Government news-organ Izvestia cried: "Soviet children must be protected from despicable and foul people...
Contempt. With little to dramatize in the case, Lawyer Hogan in 1930 failed to persuade a District of Columbia court that the Government should allow Meatpackers Armour and Swift to sell other things besides meat. And the very guile with which he strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous...
...three days the embarrassed firms, including the Pepper King's own house of James & Shakespeare, Ltd., strove to put their accounts in order for settlement day and the inevitable tumble in pepper prices that would follow. Garabed Bishirgian, who had often deliberately lost at high-stake poker in order to help the friends he had whipsawed in the market place, was calm. Pepper trading was suspended for another day and then another and another...