Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaska Fiasco...
...first. His typical tribute to her was inscribed on her tomb: "A name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. She is a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." Safe back in France after his fiasco, Prince Charlie became a young-man-about-Paris. Author Mackenzie says that Charles, like his ancestress Mary. Queen of Scots, was "essentially cold sexually," but women liked him nevertheless. His liaison with Mme de Talmond was largely a political move, but he and Clementina Walkinshaw were lovers from the time...
Actual operators of the War Department's chief charge* are the General Staff, composed of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief and five Assistant Chiefs, professional soldiers all. After that victorious fiasco, the War with Spain, wise Elihu Root perceived that running even a standing army of 25,000 was a task too intricate for the civilian chief of the War Department, of which he was then Secretary. Under his direction the Army's command was radically reorganized in 1903, the General Staff system adapted from the British, French and Germans...
...seven Fisher Body Brothers, has enough of that. Less than seven years ago young Mr. Fisher was a student at Georgetown University. He emerged to become a vice president of one of Detroit's two great arid now defunct banking groups. He emerged from Detroit's banking fiasco with the personal commendation of Jesse Jones tangibly as well as verbally expressed. He was made RFC's representative in Michigan. His elevation to the RFC board, to succeed the late Senator John J. Elaine of Wisconsin, was to him not a plum but a plume...
...Widener some 1500 students who "participated" in the Anti-War Strike last April 13. The large turnout was truly an indication of effective journalism on the part of the CRIMSON. But that this effectiveness should have been put to a somewhat perverted use appears now as regrettable. The fiasco of the Anti-War Strike last year engendered by the CRIMSON, has resulted in repercussions which it had not anticipated, and which it, if it is to be consistent editorially, must now view with some misgivings...