Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...families who have always done and still do their duty in that respect, and justice compels me to say that there are also a few newly rich who remember the poor, but the most of the possessors of Germany's gigantic fortunes have done nothing to alleviate the distress of their country. Names that all over the world are regarded as symbols for German wealth will be sought in vain on subscriptions for charitable purposes...
...These facts have been particularly grave in Austria from 1919 to 1922. English and American organizations have maintained the students who otherwise would have starved. In the meantime Austrian affairs have been settled by the League of Nations but distress in Germany has been increased by occupation of the Ruhr which spread disturbance over the whole of German industry, deprived of its coal supply, and destroyed entirely the buying power of the national currency. Conditions are even worse than they were in Austria, and without foreign help students of German universities are in danger of starving physically, morally, and intellectually...
According to a recent report by John R. Mott, chairman of the organization, the World Student Christian Federation, under whose auspices the European Relief Association administers the Funds undertook the work of relief in 1920 as a temporary measure to alleviate the extreme distress among European students. Each year succeeding, it has been constrained to continue the work by the fact that, without it, higher education in the striken countries would virtually, have to be abandoned. The contributions of American colleges have largely made this continuation possible...
Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst of Arizona was reported " in distress at losing his Senate leadership." It all came about because Governor Sweet of Colorado appointed Alva B. Adams to succeed the late Senator Nicholson from that state. Mr. Ashurst pathetically exclaimed: " I have not aspired to leadership of many sorts, but I have some very real regrets over losing my alphabetical leadership...
...Wells, who is contesting London University for the Laborites, championed capital levy which he described as "a special conscription of credit from rich men for the general need in a time of profound eco-nomic distress...