Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down $35,000 to help them try, and almost succeed, in carrying rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania for the Democrats in 1932. Nor could Franklin Roosevelt fail to take notice of him. He was made Minister to Austria. Two years later Mr. Guffey & friends called back Minister Earle, still without any political savoir-faire and even without the ability to make a decent speech, to nominate him for Governor of Pennsylvania...
...proceedings did not fail to recognize the formal purpose of the investigation: to find means of plugging holes in the income tax law, not just to ferret out individual tax dodgers. Chairman Doughton read a short statement saying that none but "those who used flagrant means of tax avoidance'' need be uneasy about the coming inquisition. Secretary Morgenthau in a monotone told the committee that nowadays there are 45,000 tax lawyers and accountants, specialists in saving their clients taxes, that often it is difficult to tell the difference "between tax avoidance which is proper and tax-evasion...
...bank would not open next morning; how he made it plain that he was asking no help for his bank, merely giving warning to others of the serious banking crisis in Chicago that would follow his bank's closing; how all agreed that his bank must not fail; how later, when action was started against the bank's stockholders to enforce their "double liability," General Dawes at once paid up his personal assessment of $5,200; how when the legality of the assessment was upheld; Dawes Brothers, Inc. paid up their liability of $1,027,000 six months...
...April 7-Do not fail to bring into relief the super-power and the immorality of the adventurer Stalin...
...experience this will not fail unless it happens to be a chilly evening, on which nights the right type of female remains home. A colleague of mine advised jumping in the river if the "car" method was unsuccessful, but not until he tried it did he realize the resulting difficulties, mostly wet clothes and the loss in short order of the attracted victim...