Word: avail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observed in a recent opinion of the Supreme Court that one of the recent appointees of that court has expressly said that the court has been reconstructed and the fair implication, as I read it, is that precedents may be of little avail, and their lack no bar. I must confess that at the end of 17 years on the bench I find less certainty in the law today than at any time. . . . The question of law is one which it seems to me that a trial judge in the present conditions and the present environment . . . should not condemn...
...went on the air, more to sound a warning to reckless speculators than to felicitate brokers on sudden prosperity. Said he: "The Exchange . . . requires that every company listing securities on this market provide essential information as to its operations, earnings and financial condition in order that this may be available for the investor. May I appeal to you earnestly to avail yourself of this factual material...
...Olson and his Farmer-Labor Party, it was stanch Republican, anti New Deal. Rich with local department store advertising in the lush 1920s, it began to sicken when Depression I set in. Handsome, silver-haired Publisher Carl Jones (an amateur card-trick expert) shuffled his journalistic cards to no avail. To the Star went his acrid Managing Editor George H. Adams (later to return to his old job on the Journal, see it fold). To the rival Tribune went his cagey business manager, George Bickelhaupt...
...without battles, this war of uncertainty, of constantly re-newed anxiety and broken hopes, but our determination has not weakened and will not weaken. ... If between peace and war they think to wear us out, we shall hold out as long as necessary. Neither force nor ruse can avail against France. We have taken what military measures we consider necessary. We are not thinking of reducing but rather of increasing them. . . . Whatever may be the diversity and complexity of international problems, there is in reality only one issue in Europe today-thatof domination or collaboration. . . . We know what we must...
...years ago in a crowded little top floor room on Manhattan's 14th Street, Painter John Sloan and Walter Pach joined in bestowing on hulking, frog-faced Diego Rivera the title of "People's Artist of America." The ceremony and the investiture were of little avail. Rivera never again laid brush to wet plaster...