Word: condi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready to go forth to heal society. For that job he became managing editor of The Nation. Chairman Medill McCormick of a Senate committee investigating U. S. occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, sent him to those countries to look into condi tions. Thereafter Dr. Gruening became a bitter critic of U. S. policy in Latin America, a champion of all the little nations on whose soil and soul the U. S. had stepped. In 1924 he publicized the presidential candidacy of the venerable Robert La Follette Sr., helped to throw a "Red Scare" into the U. S. electorate...
...adoption by an informal congress of Jewish, Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic churchmen from all over Europe of a resolution which was being printed into pamphlets last week, along with His Eminence's more gruesome pictures. Excerpts: "In spite of all efforts to minimize and deny that catastrophic starvation condi tions ravaged the Soviet Union in the days previous to the harvest it is herewith emphatically declared and certified that in the course of the present year (1933) millions of innocent persons, many of whom were residents of the richest and most fruitful parts of Russia such as the Ukraine...
...Millions of Germans revere Hitler as the outstanding German, as the man who' after 14 years of study alone knows how Germany can be saved. . . . Yet the President has blocked Hitler's path to the Chancellory with impossible condi tions." Jeered a Communist Deputy, "I thought Hitler could do everything...
...extremely dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public men with whom we have had the privilege of being associated in defense of the state. Should any Irishman come to harm as the result of 'traitor pointing' the consequences may lead to a deplorable condi tion of reprisal and counter-reprisal...
Pinchot Patching. Meanwhile, what was Governor Gifford Pinchot, outspoken foe of "the interests," doing? With a sly dig at his predecessor, John S. Fisher, said he: "I recognize the terrible condi- tions in the mining district. They were bad when I was in office before [1923-27], I arbitrated the anthracite strike and conditions were improved there. After I went out of office, conditions got worse. ... I have no power over the judges and the injunctions they grant [against picketing]. I have no power to prevent evictions [of miners from company-owned houses]. I have no power to stop...