Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party he is privately pictured as a blithering blatherskite, the most blatant bluff any state has sent to Washington in years-a disgrace to Indiana, a fraud and a faker." But Senators pay small attention to the strictures of the press and no one can fail to recognize the high esteem which Mr. Watson enjoys in Indiana, which kept him first for twelve years in the House and then elected him to terms aggregating 16 years in the Senate. Although Mr. Watson fought Mr. Hoover in the preconvention campaign, Leader Watson and President Hoover now agree that that...
Taken then, all in all, and viewed from the standpoint of what it is meant to be, and not what it might be, "Five Men of Frankfort" deals very acceptably with a story which can perhaps never fail to arouse the interest and to some extent the wonder of the reader...
...Superficial observers seem to find no destiny for our abounding increase in population, in wealth and power except that of imperialism. They fail to see that the American people are engrossed in the building for themselves of a new economic system, a new social system, a new political system-all of which are characterized by aspirations of freedom...
...British Empire is the greatest force for good the world has ever seen and possibly ever will see!" exclaimed General Smuts to correspondents, "The greatest problem before South Africa is the living together in peace and cooperation of a white and a black population. . . . If we fail in its solution, our white population is doomed in Africa, and this continent will continue on its road of immemorial barbarism...
...dared Conservatives fail to fall in behind the Chancellor? The fact of their daring proved once more how muddlesome and namby-pamby is the leadership of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Last week the Party was definitely split and undetermined on the issue presented by Mr. Churchill's money bill: namely, should the Government pay in whole or in part the allowed claims of loyal Irish subjects of His Majesty who had suffered destruction of their property during the Sinn Fein insurrections (1916-20). Should a Loyalist whose mansion had been burned down by mobsmen get a whole new house...