Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recitation of the domestic fiscal program was small Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury and a framer of the Federal Reserve Act. In the matter of broadening the basis of discountable paper through the Federal Reserve to thaw frozen assets which are causing distress, particularly in Western banks, Senator Glass reminded one & all that such a plan was now under consideration by the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, warned against public expectation of too great a broadening, assured his listeners that he would vigorously protect the Federal Reserve in Congress. Messrs. Mellon and Mills tried...
Chairman Jouett Shouse of the Democratic National Executive Committee exulted: "This remarkable margin can be construed only as a striking indication of the increasing trend toward the Democratic Party as the agency to try to solve the people's problems in this time of national distress. It is but another evidence of the discontent of the people with the rule of the Republican Party and of the nationwide determination to rebuke that party which has made so continuously the boast of enduring prosperity under its rule. . . . Immediately after the bye-election last November I predicted that...
Moved by the "cries of distress" of the children and the "great multitudes of honest, willing workers forced into idleness," His Holiness appealed for a "crusade" that will give assistance "to the body" and likewise "comfort and aid to the soul." Let the clergy act as a point of union for all the charitable bodies of the faithful, "both by preaching and through the Press...
According to the resolution of the Student Council, "a university has a moral obligation to mankind" to relieve "immediate distress and suffering" as well as "to guard against a recurrence of this situation." In such a crisis the members of the Council feel that organizations whose services can most readily be converted into a source of income should participate in the relief movement...
Whereas, a university has a moral obligation to mankind not only to guard against a recurrence of this situation, but to relieve immediate distress and suffering...