Word: wilfullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One who has never forgotten Miss Eagels' performance is Tallulah Bankhead. Nor has that wilful, luxuriant actress, daughter of the Democratic House floor leader and niece of a Senator, forgotten that William Somerset Maugham, from whose short story Rain was taken, vetoed her for the part of Sadie Thompson...
Charged with "wilful negligence" were the vessel's Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott. Charged with "fraud, neglect and connivance in violation of law" was Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud of New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.. which chartered the Morro Castle from...
Practical politics was the subject of Anderson's Both Your Houses, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for 1933. Across his frieze of expedient contemporary Congressmen, Mr. Anderson wrote a dramatic motto to the effect that a people is worthy of the government it gets. He carries the theme a...
In the Securities Act of 1933 wilful misstatement of or "omission to state any material fact" in connection with a registration statement is a criminal offense. No court has yet defined a "material fact," but last week in a lengthy ruling the Federal Trade Commission declared that a material fact...
WILFUL AND PREMEDITATED-Freeman Wills Crofts-Dodd, Mead ($2).