Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post Office, if this be an example of the best the Government can do in the conduct of business, it is a great argument against, not for, Government Ownership. Witness patronage continued through all the jobs throughout the system. Witness the recent fiasco of a "balanced budget" in the Post Office department, this after the postal rates in first class mail had been raised fifty per cent. Witness the scandals about air-mail contracts. Witness the franking privilege to Congressmen. It is enough to imagine James A. Farley, or his counterpart, running the Pennsylvania Railroad, to vitiate the boast that...
...story of the illegal search for political mastery followed the same course in the mid-19th Century that it follows today. Like Adolf Hitler, Louis Napoleon staged his own opéra boufle "beer hall putsch." Louis' fiasco consisted of a ridiculous attempt to rally the garrison town of Strasbourg behind him for an invasion of Louis Philippe's France. And, like Hitler, Louis spent a period in jail, at the French fortress of Ham, where he managed to be solaced by his serving maid. Again, like Hitler, Louis talked, before his term as President of the short...
Fortunately there is hope that this year's fiasco will not be repeated two years hence. The Republicans, who have no hope of improving their condition today, will be sadly in need of leadership--which they have not got--to hold together. The Democrats, willy, nilly, must then there will stand with or against Roosevelt and there will be serious disaffection in their ranks. The outlook is bright for an intelligent realignment, Conservative and Radical, or Stick-in-the-mind and Liberal, which every way you look at it. Then, if the candidates themselves conduct a campaign on real issues...
Geneva then had leisure to contemplate a bust of President Arthur Henderson of the nearly defunct Disarmament Conference presented last week by a Hungarian newspaper which was almost alone in printing the full text of the speech which poor, neglected "Uncle Arthur" seized this occasion to make. Another complete fiasco was the speech of assassinated Chancellor Dollfuss' successor, dry, circumloquacious Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. For almost an hour he enunciated such involved platitudes as "this is no time for retrospective discussion as to whether Austria was bound to become what she now is, but I must urge that...
...City of London. He once tutored sallow Jeddu Krishnamurti whom Mrs. Besant hailed as a messiah. Year ago Dr. Arundale brought his pretty Hindu wife to the U. S. on a lecture tour. In stalled in office last week with much cere mony, he seemed unafraid of a fiasco such as befell Mrs. Besant when her Hindu messiah renounced his beliefs. Announcing plans for a new world religion based on Theosophy, Dr. Arundale also predicted the coming of another messiah...