Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brand of soul vibrations might not prove in the end tedious. Dr. Goebbels slapped his thigh. "You know me!" he cried. "I am a sworn enemy of every sort of boredom! . . . Best of all, our propaganda is not going to cost the German people anything. Instead my Ministry cannot fail to show a profit- the radio advertising, you know...
...biggest U. S. bank failure. Harriman National (with three branches and $25,000,000) is small fry by comparison. But Bank of U. S. was not a member of the New York Clearing House. Henceforth the Clearing House can say only that no honest Clearing House bank will fail to pay 100? upon the dollar. Robert S. Stunz, executive vice president of Park Savings Bank at Washington, D. C., told friends that there was less than a half million shortage in his bank's books, then put two bullets through his head. It was feared the shortage might...
McKee's political supporters base a large part of their confidence on the fact that in the last mayoralty race some 262,649 New Yorkers took the trouble to write in his name on the ballot. This may well be encouraging to McKee's friends, but it cannot fail to be singularly discouraging to those who still hope for a real reform of the city government. McKee was for twenty > backing in the Bronx and Queens Democratic machine. While no one can reasonably object to the substitution of McKee's chubby face for O'Brien's anthropoidal features, the change...
Thus History may be said to be a large field with an average number of concentrators out for honors. It appears to be less liberal than the general average for all departments in giving degrees with honors. It seems to fail a greater percentage than most of the comparable departments fail...
...saved the life of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Author-Musician John Erskine, in his capacity as president of the Juilliard School of Music, said so. Fifty thousand Juilliard dollars had been given outright toward the $300,000 needed to guarantee another opera season (TIME, Feb. 20). Should public appeal fail to bring in the rest. Mr. Erskine implied that the Juilliard would make up the difference. Stipulations had been made, he said, to which the Metropolitan had agreed: more encouragement would be given to U. S. singers and composers; Juilliard students would be permitted to attend rehearsals; a supplementary season...