Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he had become financial adviser to the Bank of England, he announced that he had found no indications of economic recovery in America, and predicted that the depression would certainly become more acute, if indeed it were not to be a chronic condition. His opinion of the Russian system, often expressed, is that Russia's economic structure constitutes a direct menace "to the economic framework of the Western World," just as that framework is a menace to Russia. Professor Sprague had been associated with the Secretary of the Treasury as Executive Assistant since May of this year.RETURNS...
...nation on a per capita basis every Saturday night and at those who lament that they would rather possess pounds and francs than dollars. With our sense of proportion we understand and accept the fact that, in the short space of one year, we cannot cure the chronic illness that beset us for a dozen years...
Behind the Soong-Chiang rift of last week-they have quarreled several times before-observers saw more than the chronic impatience of the Chinese Generalissimo with a Finance Minister unable to supply him with unlimited funds for his troops. Recently Dr. Soong, without openly denouncing Generalissimo Chiang. has shown extreme distaste for his policy of conciliation toward Japan. With Soong out of the way, at least for a time, Chiang went the limit last week and announced regular railway service would be reestablished on Nov. 10 between China and Manchukuo for the first time in two years. He hinted that...
Since the Soviet Union has lived in chronic fear of attack by the Capitalist Powers, one of Russia's most popular figures is "Klim," the Minister of the Army, Navy and Air Force, Comrade Klimentiy Efremovich Voroshilov (V). The Red Army is numerically the second strongest in the world (562,000) but Stalin takes no chances. Attached to his nationwide espionage service, the Gay-Pay-Oo, or OGPU, are 110,000 picked troops, the praetorians of the Dictatorship. Never seen on so conspicuous a spot as Lenin's tomb is the Chief of the Gay-Pay-Oo, dyspeptic...
...edited by Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, 64, rector of Poughkeepsie's Christ Church, a strapping angler and huntsman who looks like a country squire, seldom wears clerical garb. In a church noted for its urbanity and jocularity he has been called "Gadfly Cummins" and his journal the "Chronic Hell." Dr. Cummins detests Anglo-Catholicism, helped found the Protestant Episcopal Church League to combat it. When his name was suggested as suffragan to New York's high-church Bishop Manning, Dr. Cummins announced he would be "errand boy" to no bishop (TIME, May 19, 1930). "Gadfly" Cummins has long...