Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counsel obtained a stay of sentence by appealing to the State Supreme Court, which will hear the case Oct. 2. Should the appeal fail Mayor Kline will go to the Allegheny County jail, there to join his onetime Director of Supplies Bertram L. Succop, whom he dismissed when the investigation into municipal buying began...
...issue of dictatorship before Congress and the American people. In his Inaugural Address, President Roosevelt said, "It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But in the event that the Congress shall fail" in the speedy adoption of measures to meet the national emergency, "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis--broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would be given to me if we were...
...event that the Congress shall fail" this is the key to the whole issue. In the last years there has been a growing demand on the part of the American people for dictatorship, a demand which has been based on the clear conviction that Congress has already failed. Congressional procedure is far too clumsy; its knowledge, especially of industrial and commercial relations, is far too inadequate. As a result, the business life of America is either hedged with absurd restrictions, or permitted entire freedom of action where central supervision is necessary...
...quite true that the Debating Council conspicuously lacks the support of the undergraduate body. This is not so much the fault of the Council as of the undergraduates, who fail to realize their lamentable deficiency in public speaking, always so clearly revealed when the First Marshal rises to act as chairman of the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize Speaking Contests...
...instructor. No longer is he able to repeat lectures; his methods of instruction must vary according to the changing composition of each class. Yet he establishes, in a way impossible under the lecture system, close contact with the student and with his special needs, whereas the student cannot fail to profit immeasurably from intimate association with authorities and specialists in various directions...