Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Longwell's letter (TIME, Jan. 14) of objection and cancellation intrigued me to such an extent that I looked up the Dec. 3 issue to see what terribly immoral or obscene article, with illustration, I might have overlooked Having found the offensive article and reread it, I still fail to see any justification. TIME reported facts...
Should all else fail Power of Trinity, there is always his resourceful consort and coruler, Empress Waizeru Menen. Some years ago when Italy's sporting Duke of the Abruzzi visited Abyssinia, leaving behind him a gift war tank, he little realized what the present Empress would do with it. Her husband had been imprisoned in Abyssinia's Royal Palace by the then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME...
Public reception of new models at the New York Automobile Show-a business pointer which important motor executives take so seriously that they seldom fail to attend in person-was unanimously conceded to have been the best in six years. Rising demand from the automobile industry lofted steel operations in less than a month from about 30% of capacity to 47%, a profitable basis for the heaviest of heavy industries...
...Administration's oil measure, introduced a joint resolution to provide the Government with a valid basis for reinforcing State proration laws at State lines. But what the President really wants is the power to 1) fix production quotas by States, 2) regulate interstate oil traffic and, if these fail, 3) to step into any oil State and set quotas for individual wells...
Above all, the government must avoid taking any positive action which would appear to align it on the side of either antagonist. Such legislation as the Association new proposes cannot fail to prejudice labor against the government. The Trade Disputes Bill, indeed, was characterized by the Laborites in England, as a deliberate attempt made by the capitalists to utilize the forces of a democratic government in the class war. And when either party looks on the national administration as blassed in favor of the other side, all hope of the efficacy of the government as an impartial mediator will...