Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There he immediately took a sharply regulatory attitude and by more than one opinion established himself, to the dismay of his Republican sponsor, as a New Dealer before the New Deal began. Power Commissioner McNinch attacked holding companies two years before the Roosevelt Public Utility...
...inconspicuously bought into small Eastern lines like the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash, presented the Commission with a plan for a "fifth trunk line'' to rank with Pennsylvania, B. & O )., New York Central and C. & O. roads. The Commission shook its head again. To the open dismay of Mr. Loree, the Pennsylvania was allowed to buy up the Lehigh and the Wabash. But it was 1928. stocks had gone up, and Mr. Loree had $20,000,000 profit. There was plenty of cash in Delaware & Hudson when Depression...
Collapse of once orderly rows of pamphlets and magazines brought dismay to the Zoological Museum yesterday. Shoulder-high masses of books stretched from end to end of the periodical room, and as time honored dust again settled in place, mournful employees waded through piles of literature, fossils, bones, bugs, ants...
With storm signals flying from the Charles River to the Divinity School, refugees are running to the Widener Library Reading Room to pick out some extra information from past years' exams, but they discover to their dismay only an incomplete and rather mutilated collection of midyear exam booklets. The rest are missing or lost among hundreds of people in the room. This state of affairs exists in part because the University Press stopped binding all midyear exams in 1934, and since then, the supply of bound exams is only kept up thanks to the efforts of the head...
...elevator boy gave them a prearranged nod, and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor stepped forth accompanied by George McGregor Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s three-man committee currently trying to reunite the divided House of Labor. Waving his hands in inarticulate dismay, Mr. Green dashed for Suite No. 301-304, followed by Mr. Harrison shouting: "No comment, no comment...