Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticism of the cotton business, which he singled out in his radio address last month as an industry in which regulation might be desirable, is chiefly aimed at its labor policy. The Cotton Textile Association was now agreed on a 40-hour week. To Mr. Sloan's dismay, President Roosevelt said, "Not good enough." Thirty-six hours would have to be the maximum...
...That reminded the Manchester Guardian of the way another king had solved the problem of a gift rhinoceros. In the 16th Century, Portuguese explorers captured one in India, brought it back to their monarch. His delight at owning the first rhinoceros ever seen in Europe soon turned to dismay, for the animal was a grunting, intractable terror. From motives now hidden by the centuries, the King of Portugal hit on a solution-he would send the rhino to the Pope. Happily he clapped the brute on a vessel bound for Rome. But en route the rhino, disdainful of King & Pope...
...people take the oath." Up from his seat rose peppery Opposition Leader Cosgrave. He cried bitterly. "You began the civil war-we ended it!" Through the mind of every Dail member echoed the civil war's whole story of murder and treachery, still potent to shake Irishmen with dismay. Loudly, tossing his scraggly forelock, de Valera shouted above the murmuring. "We are ending it here today, thank God!" And a storm of applause and relief swept the Irishmen of the Dail. -He can declare it any time he likes without fear of British reprisals but he cannot afford...
Around the world last week rang out cries of dismay and outrage when President Roosevelt abruptly swept the U. S. off the gold standard and let the dollar coast down toward the depreciated currency levels of 34 foreign powers. Domestic economy controlled the President's action but there was hardly a country on earth that did not see in his gold embargo order a slick trick in world finance. This opinion was intensified by the fact that he had moved only two days before beginning his White House conferences preparatory to the World Economic Conference...
...Siamese himself, Supervisor Sheehan soon found his Princeton charge a bit of a problem. So did Princeton officials, who obviously could not crudely oust an H. R. H. Last year the Legation heard to its dismay that Boxer Prince Prasob, 18, was planning to marry a Manhattan dance hall hostess. From Siam King Prajadhipok squelched the notion (TIME, June...