Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career as Mayor; one wonders how far he expects to go in spiking the guns of any opposition. The Governor has been called a "cheap imitation of Huey Long", but he may turn out to be an extremely expensive imitation of the late lamented Kingfish if Massachusetts voters fail to take warning from the signs that now point to a future government that will be fascistic in all but name...
...working system of advisers, the Division could hold up its head with the finest in the college. Even under the present set-up many stimulating professors and superb facilities make it a good field thoroughly worthwhile, and one which leads to graduate work that those interested in science cannot fail to appreciate...
...impecunious family lives in a derelict railway car; Miss Sigglesthwaite, learned science mistress of the high school, who is totally incompetent to rule her incorrigible pupils: Snaith, the wealthy alderman, whose reforms are intellectual rather than humanitarian; Midge Carne, the neurotic, unhappy adolescent granddaughter of Lord Sedgmire. One cannot fail to enjoy the star-crossed romance of Sarah Burton, new head mistress of the high school, and Councillor Robert Carne, a sporting former...
...been lost between Franklin Roosevelt and that journalistic triumvirate of New Deal nay-sayers-Frank Richardson Kent, Mark Sullivan & David Lawrence. Smarting under the President's smiling sarcasms as sorely as the President smarts under the unsympathetic reports they write about his Administration, Columnists Kent, Sullivan & Lawrence now fail to appear at White House Press conferences or maintain a dignified silence when Mr. Roosevelt talks to reporters. Not until last week, however, was a public issue made of the breach between President and press critics...
...Harriman was eased into the board chairmanship, and Mr. McCain induced Henry Elliott Cooper, onetime Chase National vice president, to take the presidency of Harriman National Bank & Trust. On the witness stand last week Mr. Cooper recalled that Mr. McCain had said: "We won't let your bank fail, Henry. The Clearing House will stand behind you regardless." Mr. McCain later gave the same assurances to the Comptroller of the Currency...