Word: dispiritedness
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Finale. It was a doleful and dispirited little group of Cabinet stumpsters who scattered to their homes to vote last week at the end of what they feared had been a long, hard, losing fight to re-elect Herbert Hoover. The betting odds were 5-to-1 against their President...
Contemplation of this social phenomenon was interrupted by the noisy arrival of that obsequious slave of the Capitalist State, the Fire Department. With misdirected enthusiasm they cast a damper upon the whole affair. They not only put out the fire but earnestly insisted that they knew nothing whatever as to...
The La Follette hearings popped a surprise when one of the foremost charitarians associated with the Hoover voluntary relief system backed down on the President. He was Allen Tibbals Burns, executive director of the Association of Community Chests & Councils. Director Burns estimated that U. S. community chests would raise only...
Having taken testimony on and deliberated for four months over Ex Parte 103, the petition of all Class 1 railroads for a blanket freight rate increase of 15%, Chairman Ezra Brainerd Jr. of the Interstate Commerce Commission and his ten colleagues last week handed down a dilemma. Even before they...
Into this misery, says Author Buchan, came a clerk of Oseney nearby Oxford. He was called Peter Pentecost, poor, humble, dispirited, and yet with a face and figure that any gypsy could tell were no churl's get.