Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pound class--Harold Frankel '34 defeated R. B. Konikow '33 by a fail...
Therefore last week the men in Geneva, the statesmen of 57 nations, had to build almost anew, or fail and leave their Conference a mockery. Up stood a go-getter, before the Conference was quite ready to hear him, and dynamically proposed to build anew. Said he in effect: the Conference had better scrap that confused wad of paper over which European statesmen have fought and contradicted each other for years, the so-called League of Nations Draft Convention for the Disarmament Conference. Instead, the go-getter, M. Andre Tardieu, proposed his plan, the plan of France...
...Measures against the flight of capital abroad are strengthened by the provision for various degrees of confiscation. As a special tax on those who evade German taxation by living abroad, it is decreed that these are to deliver 25 per cent of their funds invested in Germany; if they fail to pay this special tax they are to be arrested and sent to jail...
...holdings here into gold. The effect is to strengthen rather than to effect our creditor position, which is the basis of our pull on the world's gold. Consequently, we must either develop an import balance or exert a disastrous attraction upon the world's gold supply whenever we fail to lend abroad on a large scale...
...with long, jade earrings. Neat, oblong programs will announce affluent, philanthropic patrons of the arts. New dresses will be bought and new coiffures will be arranged. There will be a gentle, dignified stir on Huntington Avenue. Pierce Arrows will roll up to the kerb and the street lights will fail on ermine and on velvet. The Opera a short week hence will be in town...