Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President called the Red Cross ''a monument to individual and local initiative." The Governor said: "We understand today that disaster and catastrophe are not limited to suffering caused by fire and flood. If the teachings of Clara Barton were right, these same teachings must apply to the distress and suffering stalking in our midst today. . . . To this high aim we dedicate our functions of government, our towns, our counties, our State and country...
...Quick to respond to word of great distress in hurricane-devastated Belize (see p. 19), President Hoover ordered the Navy to rush assistance by plane from the Canal Zone, mobilized the help of the Red Cross...
Eyes of the Nation. Last week the Texas Legislature met. To it Governor Sterling sent a special message in which he said: "The farmers have risen in their distress and lifted their voices in the most widespread and concerted demand that has moved them during modern years. . . . Whether the situation can be reme died by legislation remains to be determined. The hopes and prayers of Texas are that it can. . . . These are abnormal, parlous times. . . . The eyes of the nation are upon us, watching and hoping for us to raise a torch that will light the way for the Southland...
...meeting is held on Monday I shall be placed in a most embarrassing position," said he. "When I took the vow of silence I made only three exceptions: First, if I am in distress and can only be assisted by speaking. Second, if somebody else is in distress who can be helped by my speaking. Third, if exceptional circumstances prevail such as an unexpected call from the Viceroy or other high official who must be seen in the interest of the cause. Thus my appearance at the committee meeting on Monday can only come under the third exception, but only...
...bridge last week, however, as he started up relief machinery. Constantly at his elbow, explaining, coaching, advising, was big-bespectacled Fred Croxton, who had been acting chief of the defunct Emergency Committee for Employment. After Assistant Croxton showed Director Gifford the ropes, he departed for West Virginia to inspect distress in the coal mines where the State said it was unable to give relief. Another Croxton idea: Letters to 26.000 school superintendents throughout the land urging them to keep their older pupils at their desks and out of competition with men who really need jobs...