Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...details would fill a good-sized volume, but when it has been conceded that the worker is at a disadvantage and not always able to strike a fair bargain, hence "collective bargaining," why has no legislation been enacted which will protect persons seeking domestic employment who invariably are in dire circumstances and with no one to depend upon, when there are so many employers willing to take advantage of the situation...
...Helper Earl Dean Howard labored with the badly disorganized clothing industry (which was favored last week by a strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) until he was felled by an acute heart attack. Helper Donald R. Richberg, counsel of the Recovery Administration, was busy stimulating merchants in Manhattan with dire prophecies: "If this adventure should fail . . . it will be the failure of an industrial system. . . . There is only the choice presented between private and public election of the directors of industry. . . . If they fumble their great opportunity, they may suddenly find it gone forever...
Nothing in the bill prevented employers from slashing wages to compensate for the new workers which the Senate was trying to force them to hire. The measure's critics loudly pointed out this defect, predicted a dire slump in already deflated wages or else a sharp jump in manufacturing sales prices. For the Black Bill to be completely effective nothing less drastic than a minimum wage provision was required and this the Senate did not yet dare to vote...
...members of the present college generation confess themselves truly pictured by Hemingway, and, as Fadiman says, "as vitally maimed as the hero of The Sun Also Rise," they confess themselves beaten, not by the war, with which they had no direct contact, but by the depression. A great many dire things indeed may be predicted from such a standpoint...
...while looking into the whole matter of debt reduction, to suspend the British payment of 95,550,000 gold dollars due Dec. 15. Addressed less to the President than to the U. S. public, it did not flatly refuse to pay but depicted dire consequences if payment were forced. As the President scanned it, he spotted many a phrase-"world depression," "storm brewing," "repeated shocks," "widespread ruin," "baneful effects," "lack of confidence" -which might have been lifted directly from his own campaign speeches. Without emphasizing the domestic poverty of Britain the note declared...