Word: availed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, was that they proved the old rates confiscatory as well as the new. The financial history of the company, wrote the Chief Justice, "repels the suggestion that during all these years it was suffering from confiscatory rates. . . . Elaborate calculations which are at war with realities are of no avail. . . . Proving too much, they fail of the intended effect." The Court ordered the injunction dissolved, the company to refund to telephone subscribers a total of nearly $20,000,000 approximately the company's entire surplus and more than twice the cash & securities in its treasury at year...
...Japan will oppose any attempt of China to avail herself of the influence of some other country to repel Japan . . . and also will oppose any effort by China to resist foreigners by bringing other foreigners to bear against them...
...confreres. With these colleagues he lunched at Dr. Johnson's tavern. There they partook liberally of stout, and after their imbitions, they proceeded to that ancient church, St. Clement's Dane. Before the high altar they prayed for Abbott Lawrence Lowell and for Harvard. The prayers of the unrighteous avail...
Even the threatened withdrawal of the Blue Eagle would be of little avail, for the Government needs motor transportation, and if all the motor companies were guilty of violating the tenets of Blue Eagleism there would be no place for the government to buy passenger cars or trucks except abroad, and the American people never would stand for the purchase of imported automobiles...
...develops, too, that the exercise of the licensing power that has been called for by President Green of the American Federation of Labor would as a practical matter be of little avail. This is because the law requires that before an industry or its units can be put on a license basis there must be a public hearing with due notice. Any such sensational procedure would take time and would mean that the hearing would afford an opportunity to try the case in the court of public opinion, which is something the motor car executives are anxious...