Word: blight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that the great Blight isn't over yet but it does seem as though the University could afford to provide some keys to University Hall for the minor officials such as the Dean of the College. Last night we saw Dean Hanford trying the door by his office and finding it locked, try all the rest of the doors in turn. Finally giving it up as a hopeless job, he turned forlornly away...
...aryan, pacifist Professor Opal (Guy Bates Post) who teaches in a Bavarian university. Their son Karl (Owen Davis Jr.) and his fiancée are admirers of Adolf Hitler. But when Karl's bigwig Storm Trooper friend Johannes von Rentzau learns that his mother is Jewish, a Nazi blight falls on the house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau Opal shoots herself dead. Von Rentzau marches in with a handful of troopers to inform the professor that because he had a son killed...
...Senate Committee on Banking & Currency last week began the fifth chapter of its own book of revelations, a chapter which impertinent wags called "Mr. Wiggin and the Chase National Cabbage Patch." The particular efforts of Mr. Pecora were first directed to finding out what ravages the blight of Depression had wreaked in the cabbage patch and how many cabbages had constituted Mr. Wiggin's perquisite as head gardener...
...principle it laid down -on price-cutting. The question of hours & wages was no issue; that had been settled by the President's blanket code. Labor was no problem. The nation's salespeople are wholly unorganized. The essence of the proposed magic was to end forever the blight of cutthroat competition which always reacts balefully upon merchant, manufacturer, laborer and ultimately consumer. In Article VIII Section I of the Retail Code resided its prime significance...
...Equity Association have declined 70%. In Manhattan, the Actors' Fund, Rachel Crothers' Stage Relief Fund and the benignantly tactful Actors' Dinner Club-where nobody knows who pays for two dinners and who pays for none-have spent some $300,000 a year to temper the blight of hard times on the profession. But the show business will go on. Although probably not more than half of Broadway's theatres will be lit (two-thirds of them were dark last year), the 1933-34 season will present shows, good shows...