Word: direfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What else Congress might do to or for business was equally conjectural. First on the House list was the Patman chain-store tax bill, designed to put interstate chains out of business. Other dire legislation may come from the monopoly hearings to be resumed next week. On the plus side, business anticipates juicy returns from the national defense program. And the railroads, pleading on bonded knees for legislative aid, seem fairly sure...
...Europe cannot fail to involve Great Britain. That such a war had been stalled but not stymied at Munich many a Briton was suddenly made aware. An old people, with a long tradition of troubles, the British have an easily recognized traditional trouble-shooting apparatus. With high officials sounding dire warnings, with politicians patching up internal differences, with smooth persuaders out trying to make friends abroad, it looked as though the old apparatus was being oiled up last week...
...with most plans of this type there are no funds available for enactment. Perhaps some intelligent alumnus, seeing the dire need for a new infirmary, will donate a successor to Stillman. Otherwise Dr. Bock together with the officers of the University will have to devise some plan for canvassing the alumni and friends of the University. Harvard needs a new, bigger, and more complete infirmary, and she needs...
Despite the dire end predicted for old Gustl by Bemelmans' boss (who said Bemelmans would end up no better), Gustl retired to a pleasant little cottage in Monte Carlo. "It's always wonderful." Bemelmans mused, "when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police...
...charitable subscription for refugees from the Sudetenland, arrived in Prague beaming with the news that his British fund already had almost $200,000 in hand. Sir Harry was shortly told by Jewish, Communist and Socialist leaders among the Sudeten refugees that money was "almost no use" in the dire emergency they faced. Within 48 hours after a Sudeten refugee arrived in what remained of Czechoslovakia last week, he could count on being flung back into Germany...