Word: neglectment
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...Manhattan, indictments on misdemeanor charges were issued against Joseph A. Broderick, State Superintendent of Banks, and 28 officers and directors of defunct Bank of United States. Mr. Broderick was named in three charges of neglect of duty and conspiracy in keeping the bank open. Asked if he would demand Superintendent Broderick's resignation, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: "Certainly not, I have every confidence in his complete integrity...
Chinese lawyers seemed agreed last week that Concubine Shu Fei can establish her "wife" status under the new Chinese Legal Code (TIME, July 27) and obtain a "divorce," if she can prove the neglect and mistreatment she alleges. Her cause celebre made other Chinese concubines prick up their ears, made Chinese husbands cogitate...
...recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running as the "businessman's candidate" in 1928, made that same pledge. Last March on the eve of municipal election Mayor Edwards summarily dismissed Superintendent Ross for "inefficiency, disloyalty and wilful neglect." Nobody questioned Mayor Edwards' authority to discharge his Superintendent of City Light. What was questioned, though, were the reasons the Mayor gave for his action. Two ambitious young lawyers, M. A. Zioncheck and Frank Fitts, organized the Citizens' Municipal Utilities Protective League with the avowed purpose of having...
...creditors." A young Negro couple called at the White House to ask the President to marry them "if he wasn't busy." Some potent Senators and Representatives with whom he had failed to consult in his first canvass of Congressional opinion fortnight ago were miffed at his apparent neglect. To soothe their pride and keep them friendly he despatched personal messages to each and every member of the 72nd Congress with this request: "If you are favorable to the proposal, it would undoubtedly aid in the negotiations now in progress if you could inform me thereof." The White House...
Ensued nearly ten years of neglect. Rust nearly did what the British Navy could not, but in 1926 the French shipbuilding firm of Penhoet at St. Nazaire, builders of the liners Ile de France, Paris and France, offered to rebuild her. The Turkish Government accepted on condition that the entire job be done in Turkey...