Word: distresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographers) : domineering, onetime newspaperman Seihin Ikeda; softspoken, old-fogyish Nagabumi Ariga; diplomatic, democratic Kikusaburo Fukui. It was on this Council's advice that the Senior Baron last week signed away 30,000,000 yen,† created by a squiggle of his august pen a Mitsui Foundation "to relieve distress among farmers and fishermen." Though Tokyo editors hailed this "largest private benefaction in the history of Japan," they made bold to comment that the House of Mitsui has been "a shining target for resentment against excessive capitalist profits." In Army circles satisfaction was tinged with comment that "the Mitsui should...
...when Congress gets here there will be definite steps taken to relieve distress and to subsidize groups. Already the government is speeding up its machinery of loans in the hope that advances to be made on commodities will send the price level up. It was a forewarning of this western revolt which caused the President to decide suddenly to embark upon the gold buying policy which for months had been advocated by Professor Warren...
...coast of Nova Scotia one day last week, the crew of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police cruiser Scatarie peered into the offing with amazement at what they saw-a big bull moose swimming out to sea. Spume drenched his antlers, waves submerged his muzzle as he swam, obviously in distress, into the wind...
...Their gasoline gave out, they drifted for five days without food or water. On the sixth day, according to Warshauer, they sighted the S. S. Conte Biancamano, crack passenger liner of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. When the steamer came within hailing distance, the castaways waved distress signals, shouted for help. Passengers and crew waved back, they said, but the liner sailed by without stopping. Two days later Coast Guardsmen rescued the drifting men, rushed them to a hospital where Tuchyner died. David Warshauer, permanently crippled by a gangrenous infection in both feet, brought suit for $200,000 against the Lloyd...
...professor's monocled son-in-law quickly drops his Jewish mistress, confiding: ''Had I known of the success in store for our leader two years ago, my interest in women would have been conducted on a strictly Aryan basis." To the family's great distress it is soon discovered that the professor, an eminent surgeon, has Jewish blood in his veins. At this point the Chancellor is injured in a motor accident. Only the Jewish professor is skillful enough to save him-with a blood transfusion donated by a Polish Jew servant. Fitfully slumbering...