Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred Emanuel Smith's foreign debt formula (a long moratorium during which each country would have deducted from its debt a percentage of the value of its imports from the U. S.). Most conservative representatives of Labor, they warned: "Unless something is done to provide employment and relieve distress we cannot be responsible for the orderly operation of the railroads. We refuse to take the responsibility for the disorder which is sure to arise if conditions continue. ... It would be with great reluctance that we would ask for a Dole. . . . Everything else suggested has either failed or has been...
Squires was in his rooms?protected by the three clergymen whose parade, to their infinite distress, had become a riot. As the mob raged nearer & nearer to the Premier's rooms Father John Pippy took command, arranged a back-door escape for the Premier after whispering among mobsmen in that quarter. Out front, Newfoundlanders were dancing on the Government's piano, dancing it to smithereens and pocketing piano keys "as souvenirs." For an escape the instant seemed propitious to Father Pippy and to potent John Power, a burly fisherman who had agreed to help...
...Chicagoans were scurrying around last week trying to raise the $500,000 necessary to insure another season of opera when suddenly a sterner blow struck them. Opera in Chicago has often been in a precarious way financially. But last week it was the Symphony which sent out an unexpected distress call, announced that it would suspend concerts next year unless a sufficient guarantee could be raised in advance...
Like a Hardy heroine the Democratic Party stumbles on from distress to disaster. In a crisis it decided to cooperate with the Republican administration. Relief measures were jointly planned and passed under the protection of the white flag, but now the truce has been broken by Republicans, and the Democrats feel extremely hurt by the ingratitude. But so trapped in the web of events has the Democratic Party become that it can do nothing more than complain of betrayal. If Mr. Garner and his cohorts refuse further support to the Hoover Administration, they draw upon their heads blame for prolonging...
...this point let us lake leave of the plot, trusting to the celluloid deities to protect virtue in distress to the last foot of film, and to the final fade-out, where their responsibility ends...