Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easter Sunday blew wintry cold in New York. Chilled photographers of the Fifth Avenue fashion parade swung their cameras in despair at such finery as winter overcoats did not conceal. Managing editors by mid-afternoon were groaning over the results, wondering what they could scrape up to decorate Monday morning's paper. At 3: 3O they knew...
...three-way gold accord with Britain and France, the U. S. was making the game of international finance entirely too complicated. One banker, related the New York Times, told a story about the governor of a small European central bank "who had come to the World Bank in despair, declaring the American instructions regarding gold completely bewildered him and asking help, only to be informed that these regulations left the World Bank experts...
With the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference scheduled to be held in Cambridge on February 26 and 27 less than two weeks away, the Presidents of the three institutions concerned issued statements last evening praising the Conference as a "lesson to those who despair of democracy...
...functions of the state throughout the civilized world, of times with little pause to consider all the circumstances, conferences organized along the principles of this one are of unique value. The method by which controversial matters are approached and disposed of is a lesson to those who despair of democracy...
...begin to crack, however, Rudolph realizes that all governments are alike, that rulers must kill to rule and that every state is run by an inner ring for profit. On top of this sudden conversion to political atheism, Rudolph loses faith in Mary and there is nothing left but despair. When the sun comes up there are two corpses in Mayerling, some 35 elsewhere in Vienna and adequate official explanations for everything...