Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of a series of long-expected changes in the operation of the Law School was announced last night, when it was revealed that admission requirements have been greatly stiffened in an effort to reduce the number of law students who fail each year...
...ranked as one of the brightest spots in the New Deal record. He takes to the direction of the Harvard Law School a wealth of training with concrete human problems. He left a professorship of law to perform this important public service. He returns with an experience that cannot fail to influence the course of legal training for a generation to come...
...bills please no new ones. Put ad in Seattle Times personal colum read Mable-What's your new address Tim Put this ad Times no other paper If no answer from you within week price goes up double and double that each week after. Don't fail and I won't. The boy is safe. Tim." Within 24 hours Federal Bureau of Investigation operatives converged on Tacoma to take up the hunt...
...much as admits that this is wishful thinking: as a liberal he needs something to fight for and seeks it in a middle ground. For a politician, particularly a reforming politician, to be on the fence, weakens his position. Seldes therefore dresses his appeal in dramatic phrase which fortunately fail completely to conceal a fairly perceptive mind...
...inaugurate something whereby we can all safely make some Cash?" Unaware at that point were the Cooke brothers that they were about to become the greatest bankers in the country, to finance the greatest industrial enterprise in U. S. history up to that time (Northern Pacific), to fail with the greatest crash then on record. A blue-eyed, energetic Episcopalian whose only frivolity was playing his flute, Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1821, grew up in a hot Abolitionist country, served his apprenticeship in St. Louis, got into Philadelphia banking at the age of 18. Since...