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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their story is always one of hard luck, and want assistance. Sometimes they have a confederate meet them a few minutes after they arrive, and then the two of them try anything they think they may succeed at. In any case where they have had help offered them they fail to return to obtain it. One has been known to carry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACQUAINTANCES OF HARVARD STUDENTS VICTIMS OF RACKET | 1/27/1931 | See Source »

...Power Commission shall fail to employ honest and capable officials, it is within my power to remove such officials as well as the members of the commission. I have not and shall not hesitate to exert that authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senate Checkmated | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...steady sequence, has many a U. S. community suffered the pangs of Bank Failures, of cash tied up, of prominent citizens suddenly under suspicion. Fear has followed Faith; Tragedy stalked Prosperity. To tell of each failure would be impossible. To fail to search beyond the weekly figures of failures would be to miss the true social significance of the Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: American Tragedies | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...kind of film in a larger and more comfortable building. They need only some support from the not-too-interested public. It is unfortunate that when the opportunity to see good plays well acted and intelligently produced is offered, the few people who would get great satisfaction from them fail to support them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEED NOT PARAMOUNT | 1/9/1931 | See Source »

Continuing, he said that almost all the Harvard men who fail on their first attempt to pass the examinations succeed on the second trial, so that few names of Harvard Law School graduates ever appear at any later reexaminations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

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