Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Local Government, represented by the Mayors of 26 important U. S. cities, met in Detroit last week to beg the Federal Government for a helping hand to carry the burden of urban unemployment and public distress. The meeting was called by aggressive, hard-bitten Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, which has spent itself almost to the brink of bankruptcy supporting its needy.* On hand among the 20 Democrats, four Republicans, one Socialist and one Farmer-Laborite, were New York's Walker, Boston's Curley, Richmond's Bright, Syracuse's Marvin, New Orleans' Walmsley, Miami's Gautier, Milwaukee's Hoan, Cleveland...
...fearful price to pay in putting a few thousand men temporarily at work." Setting forth his own program point-by- point, President Hoover reiterated these principal items: 1) a balanced Budget; 2) no more public borrowing; 3) credit expansion by the Federal Reserve Banks; 4) local charity to relieve distress; 5) a five-day government week; 6) a Home Loan Discount system; 7) authority for Reconstruction Finance Corp. to borrow an additional billion and a half dollars to be lent States unable to care for their needy and to private industry unable to secure credit elsewhere...
...Profiting by so much economic distress and so much moral disorder, the enemies of all social order, be they called Communists or any other name, boldly set about breaking through every restraint. This is the most dreadful evil of our times...
...nation's needy have gone through three hard winters without a dollar's worth of direct aid from the Federal Treasury. Every proposal for first-hand Government relief of hunger and distress has been damned and defeated with the cry of "Dole!" Before a fourth and perhaps harder winter comes the poor and jobless will vote in a national election. In Washington last week political principle began to bow to public plight...
Over the bad lands of West Texas the Akron rode out storms which delayed her a day on her first transcontinental trip, but which demonstrated beyond doubt the ship's structural strength and airworthiness. Numerous alarmed Texans reported the ship laboring in distress. Not realizing that the safest place for a dirigible is the air, amateur ground crews were rushed together. But Commander Rosendahl radioed: "Please inform both San Angelo and Randolph field that no ... landing is intended but their efforts are appreciated very much...