Word: fiascos
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...Worcester will discuss that plan today. The success of this suggestion is necessarily conditioned by the amount of interest shown in the project among the undergraduates. It is of course purposeless to artificially stimulate such interest for that would mean simply a repetition of the recent Memorial Hall fiasco. But it is worth while to point out that into Administration must depend upon material evidence of a desire for club tables and a University dining hall, that it cannot go ahead on mere guesswork that the interest is there but unexpressed. It is, we take it, largely for the purpose...
...relics of the mauve decade, in which case the failure of the Sesquicentennial is more easily understood. Such an explanation, though if he the kindest, is not the most logical, for a good jamboree will always attract the multitude. In some other cause lies the reason for the fiasco. And the most probable is that of a lack of preparation, coupled with an over abundance of graft. It is possible that the fifteen million dollar loss which she will suffer may teach Philadelphia the lesson of preparedness; and it is also possible that Philadelphia is through giving parties...
...Estrada fiasco in California, suppressed before it had taken life, is of greater import than is generally believed. It is folly to believe that Estrada planned to go into Mexico and lead a revolt with only the pitiful little army that was halted in California. He must have had support awaiting him in Mexico. That support is still there. Whether it will pick up the fight and carry on without Estrada is not known. The developments of the next few weeks should be interesting...
Floranada. This allotment close to Fort Lauderdale commenced with much touting of wealthy and noble names, frankly used as bait for social climbers. It quickly became an $8,000,000 fiasco with the owners of the alluring names scurrying from the noisome, unprofitable affair...
...word statement to the press last week, the nub of which was that Soviet Russia will not send a delegate to the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Geneva, now scheduled for May 18. The statement wandered far afield and declared among other things that the recent League fiasco had led to "a weakening of coherence among Western European powers" which "clears a path for the growing American economic penetration of Europe, after which American political penetration is but a step...