Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed windows were useless for keeping their secret because even the youngest and greenest reporter on the outside knew that Mr. Pecora was fighting tooth & nail against Mr. Kennedy's election as chairman. That job was morally Mr. Kennedy's because the President had given his good friend a five-year appointment, longest of any Commissioner. But there was open talk that Mr. Kennedy was a Wall Streeter, that he was not above a little stock speculation now and then...
Last week, however. General Johnson's rough handling of the steel union leaders had won him so many enemies that he was all but useless as a mediator. Labor had even turned against its oldtime friend McGrady. And the passage of the new labor disputes law (TIME, June 25) authorizing the President to set up impartial labor boards automatically put Senator Wagner out of the picture.* After seeing the President sign the new measure, he cheerfully remarked: "Now I can return to my Senatorial duties and play a little golf...
...morning last week fog curled in thick shrouds around the little vessel. Useless was the 16,000 candlepower electric light glaring on her masthead. Every 15 seconds her fog whistle emitted a mournful blast. The beacon signal, sounded by a motor-driven key controlled by clockwork, went out continuously instead of on the fair weather schedule of 15 min. every hour. The submarine oscillograph, synchronized with the beacon, throbbed cyclic warnings through the water...
...that monopoly and big business were reigning supreme. It was too much for the old criminal lawyer and the result was an outburst of vituperation which would make even Mr. Hoover wince. While there is some cause for his claims, the prejudice used in presenting them makes them practically useless...
When querted about Admiral Byrd's solitary sally into the frigid wilds. Mr. McCaleb replied. "Personally, I think it is very silly. But of course, it is useless to criticize Admiral Byrd until he has a chance to defend himself. The consensus of opinion among his most intimate friends seems to be that this move was motivated by reasons wholly psychological. If Admiral Byrd's sole reason was to observe human reactions. I would advise him to come back and set up a but on top of Mt. Washington...