Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the Economic Conference will accomplish will, of course, depend very much on international political conditions and on conditions in the domestic politics of the various governments. Even if the conference should have no decisive issue in governmental action, it can scarcely fail to have value as an educative force, acting directly on the statesmen at the conference and indirectly on the electorates of the world. In organizing a World Economic Conference the nations are at least using a reasonable method. In seeking the opinions of experts they are admitting that knowledge and reason are the only safe guides...
Certain weird sounds issuing from the rostrum of the Assembly of the League of Nations last week were only President Eamon de Valera opening the session with these words in Gaelic: "May God assist us in the exalted task before us; may He not permit that we should fail...
...which the owner mortgaged for $125 per acre. Even at $50 per acre the banks are able to retire their own bonds which have likewise depreciated about two-thirds in value. This process proves profitable for the land banks; Chicago's in 1931 made over $600,000. Irate farmers fail to see how Republican relief has yet reached them from Washington...
Another method of control is for examining boards to fail graduates of foreign medical schools. During the past five years only 47.1% of applying foreign graduates succeeded in getting State licenses...
...cheer for the worker and the state, Mr. Chase has no particular objection to the rich, but he says: "What no system can bear indefinitely is the continual rowelling of its vitals by those who are trying to get rich. It makes little difference whether they succeed or fail; the operation is disastrous in either case." For the benefit of young men on the make, he lists 16 ways of getting rich. Some of them...