Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What drew President Hoover to Porto Rico was the chronic economic distress of that square little island as a result of the 1928 hurricane. The big Hoover heart had been touched by Governor Theodore Roosevelt's description of the subnormal condition of Porto Rico's children. The second Chief Executive to visit the territory (the elder Roosevelt was there in 1906), President Hoover wanted to see things for himself, study rehabilitation...
...sole appeal made for [this bill] is the claim that funds should be provided to veterans in distress. . . . The number of veterans in need of such relief is a minor percentage of the whole...
President Hoover took his defeat with good grace. He announced the Government's loan policy: "Complete priority to applications from veterans who are in need." Commander O'Neil urged legionaries to let those in distress get their money first. Veterans Administrator Hines warned that a full loan on which a veteran paid no interest would virtually eat up the face value of the certificate in the 15 years before it matured. Wall Street recovered from its spasm of fear and began to agree with out-of-town businessmen that a billion dollars deflected into retail trade, into...
...argued that "there is no way to determine accurately just what the cost 'will be." Against Secretary Mellon's "potential liability" of $1,720,000,000 it set the fact that only about 48% of veterans had borrowed on their certificates in a "period of distress'' and the assumption that this figure would not be exceeded as times improved. The Committee claimed the cost would "range from $375,000,000 upwards," depending on the amount of borrowing, pointed to the $772,000,000 Bonus reserve fund as the logical source of cash...
Every student who has occasion to use the physics library housed in the Jefferson Laboratory, must be impressed with the apparent lack of efficiency with which the library is conducted. It is a source of annoyance and distress to find essential reference books repeatedly missing from the shelves. The situation is particularly acute whenever an examination is scheduled...