Word: wilfullness
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No rules or regulations have been promulgated, except for a few fairpractice standards that went into effect with registrations. Only major grounds for denial of registration were wilful misrepresentation of facts, and previous convictions or permanent injunctions in connection with, the securities business. Only 36 applications were refused. A few...
Lawyer Neylan has won William Randolph Hearst's confidence more completely than anyone ever has 'before. To him the 71 -year-old publisher is a "great American," a real Progressive, an unappreciated genius, a master of English prose, an extravagant, wilful client. But Lawyer Neylan's intense...
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...