Word: wilfullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus ended Inventor Claude's second effort at Matanzas Bay. He charged that bungling was due to "wilful disobedience of orders by a party or parties not in sympathy with the success of the experiment." Of his next attempt he said:
Mr. Curran, cocky and combative, refused to let his Dry inquisitors dismay him by their wilful interpretations of these facts. With redoubled pertness, he shot back at them: "The 18th Amendment will be repealed in about five years, I think. There are five sovereign States [New York, Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana...
Two years ago Moses Koenigsberg was chief of all Hearst feature and news services, world's widest read.* In 1927 he went to Geneva as one of five U.S. delegates to the League of Nations' first international conference of press experts. There he distinguished himself by helping to defeat a...