Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voted (54-to-17) to lay aside the election of a President pro tempore after 25 fruitless ballots, thus leaving New Hampshire's Moses in that office, much to the chagrin of Republican Insurgents whom he called "Sons of the Wild Jackass...
...Congress were determined to supply fuel for the critics of democratic government, it could hardly do so more efficiently than by its present conduct. After wasting valuable time over fruitless squabbles about Senator Moses, it now proceeded to lose its head over the moratorium. The absurd spectacle is presented of a Democratic congressman defending the President from reckless threats of impeachment, uttered by a Republican. Meanwhile preparations for relief measures during the winter go by the board. It is doubtful if the spectacle enhances the prestige of "the greatest legislative body since the Roman Senate." Appeals to the efficiency...
Education, in the last analysis, is largely a matter of carbohydrates. In recognition of this principle it has been suggested that the University establish some sort of a cafeteria, where weary denizens of the House Plan can refresh the jaded spirit without being involved in fruitless exercise. Already such an institution flourishes on the other bank of the Charles, catering to the isolated appetites of the Business School, and there is no reason to believe that an undergraduate is in any way a less valiant trencherman. If the University could run an eating place of this type, open, perhaps, from...
...McAdoo described Mr. Hoover's panicky interview of February 1918. in which he predicted a 60-day food crisis and blamed rail congestion. After some fruitless correspondence Mr. Hoover, with his legal adviser, called at the McAdoo office. Writes Mr. McAdoo: "Glasgow [the legal adviser] did all the talking. Hoover sat with downcast eyes, like a diffident schoolboy. I do not recall that he had anything to say. Glasgow told me . . . Mr. Hoover regretted his statement [and] that its publication was a mistake. ... I said I thought Mr. Hoover should make his complaints...
...Investors who buy foreign bonds appreciate what a fruitless remedy for breach of contract war is. Who is there if a man owes him money and cannot pay, finds profit in going out and killing the debtor...