Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is a carefully documented study of how the Church is now trying to exert this control in the United States. What makes "American Democracy and Catholic Power" worthy of wide circulation is that most Americans are unaware of the extent of the Church's success in this effort at control. (One example of such success is that the Church was able to force many boards of education,--including New York City's--to ban "The Nation" from public school libraries because it printed a series of articles by Blanshard, the foreruners of "American Democracy and Catholic Power," which attacked...
...reporters and all made the coroner nervous. Leaning on his meat counter, he declared: "I am still making a desperate effort to apprehend the guilty party." Sheriff Hatcher called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and dug the bullets out of Picky Pie. At week's end, the G.B.I, arrested two white men on suspicion. They figured there were more, and were still looking for them...
...effort to brighten up austerity-ridden Britain, the Southern Region of the state-owned railway system devised a pub-on-wheels (bar car) which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
Edward, My Son (M-G-M), starring Spencer Tracy, is an ambitious Hollywood effort to cash in on a British play which became a Broadway stage hit. Though it lacks the play's richest ingredient-the polished performance of British Actor and co-Playwright Robert Morley-it still makes a succulent emotional pudding...
...special effort has been made this season to provide jobs for students living away from the New England area, Holt stated. However such employment is still rare because Holt is reluctant to deal with firms on any basis other than personal...