Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in his old job on the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, ex-Prosecutor Jackson could scarcely fail to see that such a trial would not "commend itself to posterity." Last week, in response to an appeal by some of the convicted Japanese, Jackson broke a 4-10-4 deadlock among his fellow justices and voted that the Supreme Court of the U.S. hear argument on whether to review the legality of the Tokyo tribunal. Jackson's opinion argued on both sides of the 440-4 deadlock.'Tor this court now to call up these cases for judicial...
Millitary aid from the United States to Chiang Kai-shek's tottering government could only temporarily halt the Communist armies and would fail to solve the Chinese problem, John K. Fairbank, associate professor of History, said last night...
...This examination offers students interested in government work a definite opportunity to be certified and classified for a position," Teele said, adding that prospective government workers frequently must "stand around in Washington corridors for days when they fail to plan their federal job campaigns in advance...
This one was to be an executive order. It would bristle with "whereases." It would be written in language which could not fail to convince everyone that Mr. Truman, while a candidate for reelection, nevertheless was still Mr. Johnny-on-the-job. High officials who later had it quoted to them (few ever actually got to see it) remembered such phrases as "unfriendly country" and "mobilization to meet an attack." Whereas the country was so ill-prepared for attack, the document continued, the Defense Department was ordered to organize the nation's reserves and report progress within 60 days...
Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Britain's Health Minister, was a bit embarrassed last week by the public's enthusiasm for government-financed doctoring. He announced: "It seems that an extraordinary proportion of the population has bad sight . . . The health service will fail unless the people use it intelligently, sparingly and prudently...