Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mechanism has been evolved. If Mr. Gill had been under civil service, the question of his competence would have been decided before he embarked upon a revolutionary prison policy, whose success demands continuity of direction and stability of personnel. And an increase in attractive non-political positions could not fail to enliven a civil service which is now cut off from the higher rungs by the dominance of patronage as an appointment policy...
...Royalists fail, the Republic will probably be able to maintain itself if only because it represents a compromise between the various warring political factions, and because, due to the growth in the centralization of authority, the government has a much firmer hold on the country than in any of the previous revolutions. Thus the present is not likely to give birth to any very radical movement--although hovering vaguely and almost unnoticed over the scene is the shadow of Fascism and dictatorship. NEMO
...There is only one law in the Heimwehr. I command and you obey. . . . Every leader down to the last man must henceforth avenge every Nazi attack. If legal authorities fail to mete out justice, take the law into your own hands...
Much given to hyperbole and superlative is the U. S. cosmetics industry. High priests of the beauty business seldom fail to inject into any serious discussion of their industry the magic phrase: "Two Billion Dollars." Last week at a divisional meeting of the American Cosmeticians' Association in Chicago, Thomas Lyle Williams, President of Maybelline Co., was happy to report that the beauty business was running 15% to 20% ahead of last year. That, said Beautician Williams, would mean a $500,000,000 increase in volume for 1934, a grand total for the Industry...
...scheme of education. But it is men and not methods which loom largest in the mind of President Conant. "Harvard's success," he says, "will depend almost entirely on our ability to procure men of the highest calibre for our student body and for our faculty. . . . If we fail in this regard there are no educational panaceas which will restore Harvard to its position of leadership...