Word: effort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexican reason [for the consulate closing] is . . . because they feel that Laredo is not a safe port for their public citizens to pass through. . . . Mexicans find it difficult to understand that you have not found it possible . . . to ameliorate the conduct of legal officers of that country. . . . If any effort can be taken along that line, I wish you would advise...
...Melody. In the French chamber arose Deputy Gaston Gerard last week to exclaim: "In the domain of the cinema we have become virtual tributaries to American productions. Americans already hail [the talkies] as a vehicle for spreading the English language over the world. It is an immense and implacable effort for intellectual colonization that threatens...
...student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions safer, establish a standard wage; protect airmen from unjustifiable discharge, limit the hours of labor, promote the general well being of aircraft workers. Stirring them to this effort is their belief that airlines are thinking of cutting the pay of all classes of employes except officials. Both unionizers are friends of Col. Lindbergh...
...last week's disclosures of Lakin lobbying won no praise from the Committee. Lobbyist Lakin had engaged as the lobby's attorney Edwin Paul Shattuck, a Manhattan lawyer who had served with Herbert Hoover in the Food Administration. To the committee this employment looked like an effort to "hire White House influence." Lobbyist Lakin's letters to Cuban clients, to President Machado himself, told his story for him. Excerpts...
...arouse a storm of skeptical inquiries. Even the optimist cannot dream of advances in naval science which will assure perfect safety beneath the water. There-has been during the two years just elapsed, however, time for considerable progress towards this goal. It is to be sincerely hoped that every effort has been enlisted in the past, and that increasing courage will be manifested in the future towards the furtherance of a safety programme. Humanity is not prepared to stand for another disaster...