Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Congress must specifically appropriate the sums necessary for this purpose, observers thought that final endorsement of legislation already passed in principle would not fail to be forth coming...
With this proportion in mind, observers scanned afresh the statement of M. Stalin. Did he really fear an invasion by the Grand Duke Nikolai? A likely hypothesis seemed to be that Dictator Stalin was talking chiefly for home consumption. He and the Communist party cannot fail to benefit by the growing up among the Russian masses of an idea that the Communist regime alone stands as their defender against an "Alliance" headed by Great Britain...
President Elected. The legislators of the Irish Free State were, indeed, governing it and themselves very well last week, when they assembled in the first parliament to sit since the recent election (TIME, June 20, 27). Disorder seemed likely as the Fianna Fail ("Republican") deputies, led by famed Eamonn De Valera, appeared, and, for the first time, threatened en masse to take their seats-while persisting in their refusal to take the oath of fealty to George V without which no deputy elected to the Dail can sit therein...
...time the Fianna Fail deputies milled about in committee rooms and moped in the corridor of the Dail. Policemen were numerous. The Fianna Fail's 44 members drifted gradually, nonviolently away...
Soon President William T. Cosgrave was re-elected to that office by a vote of 68 to 22-his own party numbering but 46. His speech of acceptance was long, reluctant, full of reproaches to the Fianna Fail for not taking the oath and their seats...