Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Smyrna police used whips on the rabble to make them turn out at the polls. They could vote, the police told them, either for an obscure and locally unpopular candidate offered by Dictator Kemal's own "Peoples' Republican Party" or for the eminent and honored Fethi Bey, founder-candidate of the new "Liberal Republican Party." When some of the rabble began to howl "Bread, bread!", protesting that in their misery they did not want to vote, police lashes curled, cracked. His Excellency Fethi Bey was triumphally elected. Next day 15 Kemalist Deputies deserted the President's party...
...part of their Long Island estate to raise funds, he completed his nine-cylinder models. By that time Wright Aeronautical Corp. foresaw the collapse of the market for water-cooled types which it had been building. In 1923 Wright bought out Lawrance Aero Engine Corp. and acquired the founder. Soon afterward the Whirlwind series was born...
...Chicago last week stockholders of Celotex Co. approved a plan which will constrict the activities of Bror Gustave Dahlberg, the company's enthusiastic founder-president. And in Chicago last week the second receivership suit of the year was filed against Celotex...
...16th Century Spain, inquisitors twice imprisoned St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, on suspicion of heresy. Inquisitors also accused St. Teresa, reformer of the Carmelite Order, of canonical misconduct. Her mystic Concepts of the Divine Love brought censure. She was saved from punishment by King Philip II, morose religio-maniac...
...plan for this new school is of more than ordinary interest to the general public. Heretofore the work done in geography at Clark University in Worcester has stood by itself in America. With Dr. Rice as founder and first director of the Harvard school and the splendid plant which he is providing for it, there is no reason to doubt the importance of the work it will...