Word: distresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lessons of these difficult times have taught us many things. Among these is the incontrovertible fact that unemployment, with all its attendant distress, is a problem which is the direct concern of government. The machine age has permanently changed our obligations. There can now be no doubt that those who find themselves, through no fault of their own, displaced in recurring periods of depression must be provided for by Government, with funds raised from the taxpayers. If no better method can be thought of, we are constrained to resort to the dole. But should not every effort be made...
...these tales of diplomatic distress and many more like them were unfolded by Assistant Secretary of State Carr to the House Appropriations Committee last week. "There has been more real suffering in the foreign service in the last six months than at any time in my knowledge," said Diplomat Carr, who has been in the State Department for 40 years. "Men have sacrificed their life-insurance policies. They have borrowed money. They have indulged in all sorts of sacrifices that no Government employe should be expected to indulge...
...write you in genuine distress to see what we can do to stem the tide of unfavorable publicity which is now flooding the country following your article about Chautauqua in the Jan. 1 issue...
Meanwhile from Geneva the Foreign Minister of France was excitedly telephoning that if he went to the bedside of a young girl in distress it was only as a lawyer hired by her uncle "and I never saw her again in my life or knew that she later married Stavisky...
Britain. Because that canny Scot, James Ramsay MacDonald will rush into no experiments, to the infinite distress of Britain's Hearstian press peers, they used the President's speech as a whip to make the Prime Minister giddap...