Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said recently of the work of the Student Friendship Fund: "I am much gratified and relieved to know that the American Student Friendship Fund proposes to continue work in the principal university centers. I wish to give my unqualified support to its continuance, and hope that it will not fail from want of funds...
...already held drives for the Fund. Smith College is initiating one for twenty-seven thousand dollars! Harvard's turn has come and the call has been issued for at least five thousand dollars. With examples of other colleges and of its own past record before it, Harvard should not fail to carry its subscription up and over...
Oscar W. Underwood. The activities of the Alabaman are confined mainly to the South. The strategy of this course is the necessity of a two- thirds vote to nominate in the Democratic Convention. The Underwood men calculate that McAdoo will fail in this and they want their candidate to have a nucleus of 100 or more delegates when the alignment breaks up in the Convention and the McAdoo forces begin to disperse to other candidates. They are appealing to the South much as McAdoo is appealing to the West, yet Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida are the only states whose...
...Baby" McLeod introduced a bill to make it a legal offense for parents to fail to deposit with the Government, within 30 days after the birth of a child, photographs of his or her fingerprints and footprints. This measure would prevent confusion of offspring in hospitals...
...chief fear of the educational forces now gathered at the Capital seems to be not so much that the bill will fail to gain attention as that it will be met by a proposal to combine the Department of Education with the Public Health Service. It is considered that each Department will operate more efficiently if independent, and in particular that the energies of the Department of Education will be wasted if they have to be subordinated to the purposes of the Health Service...