Word: distressfully
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Members of this unofficial mission, to the distress of His Majesty's Government, have been spouting up & down Japan of late their ardent hope for a resumption of the pre-War Anglo-Japanese Alliance...
Discounting the charges which President Conant levelled at the Nazi government when he refused to accept his scholarship on October 3rd, Ernest F. Hanfstaengl '09 made public Saturday his letter of reply. He demanded that Mr. Conant back up his accusations with specific instances and expressed his distress that the actions of the Hitler government could be construed in such a manner...
...Texas now instead of just piping it off but that paradise of the little fellow is merrily producing at least 100,000 bbl. of oil daily in excess of all allotments- all "hot"' oil. The retail price of gasoline has been threatened for more than a year by "distress stocks"-largely gasoline refined by slimly-financed independents. As an alternative to price-fixing. Oil Administrator Ickes gave his blessings to a pool backed by major companies which took the distress gasoline off the market. Belatedly it was discovered that most of this "distress'' gasoline was made from...
...charges of false entry to cover up the misapplication. Question was whether Banker House had acted in good faith when, a scant 18 months after his Washington appointment, he had dipped into his bank's pension fund for money to bolster Guardian stock in a ''distress" market. Prosecution claimed that he had not, that the transaction was illegal, that Banker House had acted to save his own 1,500 shares. After three hours deliberation the jury agreed with the people, found Banker House guilty on all 26 counts. Between him and a six-year jail term...
...While we recognize the propriety of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration furnishing aid to those who may be in temporary distress as a result of involuntary unemployment, we are convinced that the furnishing of financial aid by the Government to men who are voluntarily unemployed is fraught with grave dangers to our economic and social stability. . . . The furnishing of relief to strikers, if continued as a national policy, will . . . not only incite industrial strife but will materially increase the number of unemployed...