Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses, Republican: "Here we shall continue to find the partisan pack in full bay?Bess, Tray and Sweetheart?all hot upon the scent. Here, I suppose, we shall continue to see, and the country will not fail to take notice of, a proceeding in which we find sick chambers invaded by a jazz band, a ghoulish dance performed on a cemetery and partisan snipers making a rifle pit of the grave of Warren Harding...
...Gathered here were Foster, Meyerscough, Howat, Dunne, Hamilton and others of their ilk, with ample funds at their disposal to carry out their preconceived plans for the destruction of the largest unit of American Labor. As they have failed now, they will fail again, but it behooves our citizenship to recognize the menace of such sinister influences and to place the heel of their disapproval upon its serpent head...
...possible change in the conservation of resources policy. Mr. Coolidge, desiring the disclosure and punishment of guilt, if any, has stated this desire and selected counsel to act in the matter. I see nothing in the President's action to discredit his candidacy. Even if I did, I fail to see Mr. Johnson's special qualifications for the Presidency. HENRY W. KFYKS...
...followers--mainly because they were his followers by the way, and not because they were intelligent enough to understand or to visualize it--who has created a definite goal, toward which all nations will find themselves irresistibly urged in the perhaps not distant future, cannot be said to have failed. It is true that he could not perform the impossible task of instantly overcoming the inborn inhibitions and accumulated prejudices of the Senate, or of the American people or of the world. It is unfortunately true that he had no way of raising mankind to his own mental plane...
Fortunately, the losses entailed by this fad for foreign banks have long since been written off. Only once, when the Mercantile Bank of the Americas threatened to fail, did the experiment cause any critical strain on the country's business...