Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caterer served meals at $2 a week, a practice which gave the cellar the name of "Starvation Hollow." Parenthetically one might say here that the motivation behind almost every important item in the early history of the College, and in a lesser sense today, hras arisen out of grave problems of food supply and demand...
...rolled it out into the icy yard and the little worker froze to death in his sleep. Mrs. Kelley carried that story up & down the U. S. as a challenge to greedy employers, used it to launch her national drive against Child Labor. Last week Florence Kelley's grave at Brooklin, Me. was more than a year old but in Washington her cause marched on to score its biggest triumph. Cotton textile manufacturers were appearing before Industrial Recovery Administrator Johnson to get their work & wages code approved. Labor was pounding them hard for proposing to pay their employes...
Last week Anno Domini 1929 turned in its well-interred grave. The anti-trust laws in decades past have dispersed great corporations: Standard Oil, the tobacco trust, the sugar trust. But the anti-trust laws never stopped men from taking the advice given by every U. S. dollar: e pluribus enum. The mergers of 1929 carried that advice to extremes if not to absurdity. The ghost of 1929 had last week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created...
Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel was hardly in her grave before heirs far from apparent began to clamor for a slice of the fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and then grounded in Manhattan. Whole European villages claimed Wendel blood. From Brooklyn came a dull-witted housepainter who, as the self-styled son of the last male Wendel, laid siege to the whole estate, was sentenced to jail for conspiracy. One by one Surrogate Foley eliminated 2.,294 claims. After eleven months of spectacular hearings four fifth-degree relatives settled...
Outside, rain poured down in sheets. Despite a seeming cure hemophilia-successively the curse of the Romanovs and the Bourbons-brooded over the match. In haste Father Borel read a brief Latin, service. Swiss police, alarmed by a threatening note that the bridegroom was in "grave danger," guarded every shadow of the church. Almost furtively, as the serv ice ended, the new Count & Countess slipped out, dashed away in a motor car to spend their honeymoon some 30 miles distant at Evian-les-Bains...