Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reports from Washington indicate that the President's veto of the Patman Bill will probably be upheld by the Senate. But the bonus champions indicate they have just begun to fight. If the Patman measure does fail, other bonus bills will be waiting to be rushed through--this time as a "rider" attached to one of the administration's pet appropriation measures. These new bills, it is rumored, would give the Precident greater freedom in choosing means of raising the two billion dollars. He would be allowed to draw from the four billion relief fund, or borrow the necessary cash...
There can be no doubt that under some circumstances disciplinary action is justifiable. If the Advocate or the CRIMSON should deliberately misrepresent fact, the College must possess protection. If the Lampoon should fail to keep within moral limits, which are its standard, the College must again have protection...
What tangible results may develop from the petition, no matter whether it be loaded to overflowing, and circulating in every American University, is a consideration quite apart from the petition's value. These issues must not be confused. The point is not that the petition will fail to change Hearst overnight into a tolerant lamb of peace, gifted with a clear and far-seeing eye. Rather is it that the petition will attract attention to a rising menace to ideals indigenous to America...
...loved nothing better than to throw his arm about the neck of the author of Utopia and stroll with Sir Thomas More in his garden by the Thames. Of his sovereign, Sir Thomas said: ''If my head should win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go.'' But More's head went for a different purpose. Becoming Chancellor of England in 1529, this pious Catholic scholar and lawyer opposed Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his plan to make himself head of the English church. Gentle Sir Thomas was tried...
Object of Priest Coughlin's personal appearance was to convert his filing case audience into a working political organization. The Detroit gathering was to be the first of a series of organization meetings. Father Coughlin told a newshawk: "It's got to be done, and if I fail it means annihilation for me. ... At the least sign of slowing up, my enemies inside and out-side the Church would nail me. They wouldn't pay much attention to the sportsman's code about shooting a sitting bird...