Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconded the Hoover renomination in June, led to the White House 150 representatives of the "Republican Joint National Planning Committee to Get out the Negro Vote," spread them out on the south lawn. President Hoover appeared on the White House portico. "Oh, Mr. President." declared Roscoe Conkling Simmons, "distress has overtaken us. We come to you in our heaviest hour. Some few have gone so far as to say you do not believe in human equality. We have been told our party has deserted the old faith. Speak. Mr. President, speak!" An emotional murmur ran through the black crowd. President...
...poured lofty sentiments into the ears of their fellows, and pots of tar over the heads of hated "loyalists." The Vagabond remembers, as the Vagabond remembers most things, how the Seniors at Harvard dressed only in American-made clothes, and held no Commencement, "on account of the confusion and distress of the times." Then it was that the College moved en masse to Concord "with all convenient speed," and one student who was absent during the whole Concord session, pleaded that he had "been found guilty and imprisoned by the General Court, for frequent clamoring, in the most impudent, insulting...
Yesterday Dean Donham of the Harvard Business School suggested in a radio address two methods of attacking the economic distress of the country. Unemployment the Dean would sweep away by dividing available work among all the men fit for positions. The basic cause of business depression, maladjustment, would be taken care of by a permanently established national planning board. These ideas are not new, but they have hitherto been considered radical, indeed socialistic, and it is a surprising indication of the progress of the times to hear them from the Dean of a Harvard graduate school...
Imperial Gesture. Four days after this protest the Son of Heaven himself donated 4,800,000 yen (currently $1,200,000) from his privy purse to relieve distress among Japanese farmers, fishermen and tradesmen on the eve of the opening of a special session of the Diet...
...struggle of internal politics. That I reject any sort of political dictatorship I made clear in my recent radio talk. . . . Can the outside world expect the German people to be content with existing conditions? On the contrary there is reason for wondering that the German people bear their terrible distress so calmly and with such discipline. ... A country treated for 13 years as a pariah by the outside world simply had to forfeit the respect of its own people...