Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After Dictator Josef V. Stalin, the starving Russians most hate George Bernard Shaw for his accounts of their plentiful food. . . . There is insufficient feed and many peasants are too weak to work on the land and the future prospect seems blacker than the present. The peasants no longer trust their government and the change in the taxation policy came too late...
...inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police but don't try your client." Once when he had Anthony J. Drexel Biddle as a witness he was afraid that the fact that Mr. Biddle was a capitalist would react unfavorably on the jury. So shrewd Max Steuer...
...recourse to force, security, effective disarmament, and suppression of all private profits from munitions. Veterans of delegations all the way from Great Britain to Denmark and the Territory of Memel approved this resolution. The American Legion sent no U. S. delegates but was reported to have approved a separate weak-tea resolution, presented by the Italians, which made no mention of private munitions profits...
...each Houses and those Houses particularly overdosed with private school or club men would receive a smaller number of them than the other Houses. This is of course, precisely the sort of action which should have taken place last year, and it is a sad commentary on the weak relations between the seven House Masters that they have to be forced into obviously desirable action by a desperate situation...
...Healthy though it is to have weak banks cut out of the banking system, if 15% or 20% of the banks are liquidated it means that depositors will have to pocket losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. In liquidation National Banks average only about 67% payment to depositors, state banks considerably less. Furthermore while the Federal authorities appear to have been fairly rigorous in weeding out weak banks, there are no doubt cases of nonmember state banks opened by local authorities who for political reasons were more lenient than they should have been...