Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout Ireland, where an impression has grown that the Holy Father this winter is on increasingly thin geographical ice, the Fianna Fail (Government Party) Convention was besought last week in Dublin to offer "sanctuary in Ireland" to Pius XI. Cried the sponsor of this proposal, Cork City Delegate Eoin O'Mahoney, "I believe that as a result of sanctions Italy will be smashed, and if Mussolini goes the Holy Father will have...
Statesmen of "eleven nations" gathered in the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office last week for the opening of a new Naval Conference which all oracles have doomed to fail in attaining its objective: limitation of naval armament. Impressive to behold was the majority of seven nations (Great Britain, Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the Irish Free State) dwarfing physically the minority of four (U. S., Japan, France and Italy...
Immediately, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen yowled in protest, said the Burlington was endangering its trains, since the "dead man's control" might fail. Denying this, the railroad refused to negotiate, stood pat, though the cost of hiring extra men for Zephyrs would total at present but $88 a day more. Nothing daunted, the Brotherhood polled Burlington's 1,700 engineers and firemen, by last week had more than a two-thirds majority lined up in favor of a strike...
...other thing is just another musical. Even the color of the name "Coronado," which belongs to a most swanky hotel in Lower California, and the rhythm of Eddie Duchin, a Massachusetts boy who has made good in the grand style, fail to make the picture particularly exciting. There is an adorable collegiate youngster who is everybody's pal and puts tapioca in drain pipes; he doesn't exactly prepossess...
Outright prohibition of liquor by college authorities is not the answer to this problem. If students cannot be kept from drinking, they should at least know HOW to drink. Educating the students to proper ways of drinking may become the eventual solution. If all other methods fail, it will not do any harm to try this. Syracuse Daily Orange...