Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terms: the 253 claims already filed by U. S. landowners, and all future claims, will be adjudicated by a two-man commission, one member chosen by each country. If these two fail to agree a third commissioner will be appointed by a permanent commission of inquiry at Washington. Mexico will put $1,000,000 on the line by May 1939, at least that sum each year thereafter until the claims, unofficially estimated at $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, are settled. As his commissioner President Roosevelt promptly chose Lawrence Lawson of the U.S.-Mexican International Boundary Commission. President Cardenas...
...would try another timehonored, time-stalling method used successfully when Indian nationalism flared up. The Cabinet decided to call in London a round-table conference of Jews and Arabs and urge the two factions to compose their differences under the benevolent, watchful eye of the Mandatory.* Should they fail to agree, the British Government hinted, a settlement might be imposed...
...orthodox," that is, not to crack down on private capital or private initiative, but to continue "democratic" efforts to coax and induce a financial recovery in France and "balance the budget." Without quite knowing what steps M. Reynaud was going to take, M. Marchandeau snorted that "similar measures have failed at least three times before, and I fail to see why they should succeed...
...famous for his work on cancer of the uterus and diseases of the umbilicus. Drs. Kelly and Cullen have grown old together, and next week on November 19 the Hopkins staff will celebrate Dr. Cullen's 70th birthday. Any tribute to diplomatic, sociable Dr. Cullen can scarcely fail to be a tribute to Howard Atwood Kelly, so close has been their association for almost half a century. Hopkins men know that at the jolly, informal dinner, Dr. Cullen, who has taught every class in the Hopkins Medical School, will modestly hand over most of his laurels to Dr. Kelly...
Chileans who fail to vote are black-listed as civic-duty dodgers and have to pay a 100-peso ($5) fine. Consequently, last week most of them turned out to vote in a typical South American election which picked a successor to stern, small-eyed President Arturo Alessandri Rodriguez, forbidden by law to succeed himself...