Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...persons were brought to trial, the spotlight was fixed on the chief conspirators: Major General K. Martii Wallenius, former Chief of the Finnish General Staff, and Colonel Kuussaari, head of the Staff's mobilization section. In court last week the prosecutor slid over, the details of the kidnapping attempt, concentrated on the state of Prohibition enforcement in Finland which the evidence brought out. Taxi drivers stationed near the Stahlberg villa told of a mysterious car that had lurked about the neighborhood for several days before the Stahlbergs' abduction, thought that it was a bootlegger making his deliveries...
Miss Hayes did not attempt the Irish brogue when she appeared in her last show, the worthy but ill-starred Mr. Gilhooley. Again she deserves praise for not trying to put any English on her speech, although she is surrounded by a cast of excellent Britishers...
...great bankers of New York gathered on the tenth floor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Specifically, their meeting was precipitated by the run on Bank of United States. But actually the run was only the climax to weeks of silent withdrawals, months of rumor, two attempts to merge Bank of United States with three other banks (TIME, Dec. 8). Only two days before the run, it was announced that the second attempt to merge had failed...
Many women loved John Wesley, but for a long time he thought celibacy the only state, finally marrying a widowed shrew who brought him four ready-made children and continuous quarrels. Wesley was a missionary to the marrow, but his single attempt on the U. S. (in Georgia) was unsuccessful; England was his proper field. There he traveled 200,000 miles, preached 40,000 sermons, gathered 120,000 followers. "By 1770 whatever else people thought of Wesley, they were bound to think that he was among the most important forces of his time...
...most potent personalities is big, athletic, round-faced Colonel Luke Lea. At 51 he is already wrapped in a cocoon of legend: the man who, at 32, was the youngest U. S. Senator ever to sit legally; who, a fighting colonel of field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal in 1928 to add to his Nashville Tennesseans (morning and evening); also...