Word: setback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First setback to the Squires career was a royal commission appointed to investi gate the young Premier's acts in 1923 ? with the discreet result that he was permitted to retire from politics to his nourishing legal practice. In 1928 he came back, has been Premier ever since...
...Insull and Tri-Utilities collapses as well as the Kreuger scandal, the holding company theory at present is the subject of many an attack, many an inquiry. Last week from the Public Service Commission of the State of New York, the holding company theory received its 'second setback in three weeks...
...First setback was when Long Island Capital Corp. petitioned for authority to buy control of Long Island Lighting Co. Said Commission Chairman Milo Roy Maltbie in refusing to grant permission: "Experience has shown that in times of stress when assistance is most needed, holding companies are unable to give it, and in good times when funds can be secured at low rates, the operating companies do not need external assistance. The record in this case does not show that the addition of Long Island Capital Corporation to the corporate structure of the Long Island Lighting System of companies would...
...everyone knows, Minseito Premier Baron Wakatsuki opposed but was unable to stop the Army's plunge into Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28). His successor, the Seiyukai's "Old Fox,'" pandered eagerly to the Army & Navy, but the costly setback at Shanghai forced the Foreign Office to negotiate what the fighting services were bound to consider a "disgraceful withdrawal" (TIME, May 16). This, though not the fault of the "Old Fox," led him straight into a trap of Japanese swashbuckling hysteria which cost him his life last week...
Lowell House gained a commanding lead in League B squash yesterday by handing Kirkland a 5 to 0 setback, thus toppling the Kirkland recquetmen from first to third place in the standing. The League A standing remained the same, with Dunster in the lead, closely followed by Lowell and Eliot, in that order. Wednesday's incompleted match between Adams and Leverett in League C went to Leverett by a 3 to 2 score, when J. F. Preston '32 (Lev) defeated Talcott Parsons, Tutor...