Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case with the leader of a party which holds an overwhelming majority-but the holder of a mere sinecure in the Cabinet, is to pious Mrs. Baldwin only one more proof that the ways of Divine Providence are cozily inscrutable. Last week, supremely confident that her Stanley could not fail, she sent him forth to face 1,200 delegates of the Central Conservative Council gathered to tackle a party issue which might decide his right to keep the name of Leader with a big L. The issue, ideal for Conservative squabbling, was whether His Majesty's Government should follow...
Moscow seethed. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Gregory Sokolnikov protested to the world: "Without waiting for our investigation the Tachikaze illegally penetrated Soviet waters and landed part of a crew which arbitrarily explored the shore. . . . The Soviet Government cannot fail to express utter surprise...
...Should the United States, Great Britain and France fail to point a way out of the economic morass at this Conference," snapped Copper King Francqui, "the small nations of Europe will cluster about the one sole statesman capable of leadership- MUSSOLINI. // Duce is fostering sensible ideas for united action while the Great Powers are doing nothing. The small nations, crying for leadership, will follow Mussolini...
Tipped off by M. Francqui, correspondents circulated among the delegates of Norway, Sweden. Denmark. Luxemburg and The Netherlands. They were told that recently representatives of these little nations and Belgium met in Stockholm, seriously discussed formation of an economic bloc of minor nations should the World Conference fail, and decided, in the words of a Scandinavian Delegate, "to seek a powerful leader around whom we could gather...
...liveried chauffeur in a limousine drove to Sing Sing prison and delivered a small oriental rug which was spread on the floor of a cell occupied by Saul Singer, executive vice president of the late Bank of United States (biggest U. S. bank ever to fail), serving three to six years for fenegling with the bank's funds. The same day trial began to recover assessments of $25 a share from 170 stockholders of the failed bank, and Mr. Singer faced the prospect of a temporary vacation from his soft-carpeted cell to testify...