Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making no division into Varsity and Junior Varsity players but obtaining a definite slant on the ability of his material from the daily scrimmages, Coach Richard Cresson Harlow is already well along in the second week of his intensive fail drill for the opening game with Springfield on October...
Almost axiomatic with Left-wing labor leaders is the belief that the U. S. labor movement will fail inevitably unless it includes Negro workers. William Z. Foster, generalissimo of the 1919 steel strike blamed the failure of his great drive directly on Negro labor. Some 85% of Negro labor is unskilled. Not only do Negroes work for less money than whites, but Negroes, particularly if raised in the South, are more impressed by demonstration of civil authority, more easily cowed by tough company tactics. Moreover, Negroes, having been barred, openly or tacitly, from many an old line union, have little...
...takes out his cigaret case. Last winter when he wanted to take a military aide to the U. S. with him, he invited a group of West Point-trained Filipino officers to dine. When their U. S. training caused them to forget their native manners so far as to fail to light President Quezon's after-dinner smoke, he decided to go to the U. S. without military escort. By last week, all Manila knew that President Quezon was really prepared to consider Commissioner McNutt as Boss. On the occasion of his homecoming call, he graciously lighted the McNutt...
When the fire burned out, five barns had burned to the ground. Damages were about $40,000. Said Boise's Mayor J. L. Edlefsen: "I fail to see ... what the department could have done." Said Fire Chief W. E. Foster: "It was as hard for our firemen as anyone else to watch those animals burn to death...
...Touch the problem of "aged and infirm judges who fail to ... retire or resign...