Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance- Simple was the explanation of Puerto Rican chagrin: 90% of the island's exports (chiefly sugar, tobacco, citrus fruits) go to the U. S. Most welcome of the island's imports are dollars from the U. S. Treasury. Independence would cut off both...
With more indignation than chagrin British editors of those popular papers which deal in political prophecy agreed last week that never have they failed more completely than in trying to forecast in recent weeks whom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would choose to fill the new and potentially all-important British post of his deputy as Chairman of the Committee of Imperial Defense (TIME, March...
...took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from famed sympathizers, Governor Clement Calhoun Young gave Anita Whitney a pardon. To the chagrin of many a sympathizer, most of whom were mild liberals, Anita Whitney promptly marched back to the Communist battle line as an orthodox Stalinite. In the election which led to her arrest, she polled over 100,000 votes as her Party's candidate for State Comptroller. Considered their...
...about its business. Not so the ecclesiastical arm, whose stake is much greater. On marriage rests the prestige, the continuity of all world religions. Christianity, notably, is one religion whose priests and whose God set examples by standing in the role of parents to children. Great, therefore, is the chagrin of churchmen when they see the institution of marriage beset as it is in the U. S. Typically last week two men of God were working to do something about marriage...
...distrustful of newshawks in general. President Hoover put Pundit Sullivan in his "Medicine Ball Cabinet," had him to breakfasts, took him on fishing trips,* called him often to the White House for long, confidential talks. Result was that Mark Sullivan became, to other Washington correspondents' envy and chagrin, an authoritative Administration spokesman in his own right. Pundit Sullivan sometimes differed with the President in private, never in his dispatches. The Hoover Administration gave him, temporarily, an excessive fame and influence, fixed him firmly in the public mind as a biased political observer...