Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors bulletined, "The situation is very grave...
...which those remedies are to be applied in this country, should the Socialists come into power, is not apparent. The interview with Mr. Thomas in today's CRIMSON outlined such a plan, but reveals no assurance that it could actually be introduced into the American governmental system without grave disturbances. A National Board of Strategy to plan and correlate industrial enterprises would cut sharply across the duties and prerogative of existing American Institutions. When one considers how strongly those who have those duties and prerogatives will cling to them, buttressed by the system of which they are part...
...editors for the retiring board, Yale's President James Rowland Angell had sly fun asking the News who started Yale's building boom, anyway. He recalled, he said, that the Yale Record (funny fortnightly) had treated itself to a handsome home three years ago. And now the grave News had received and that day had dedicated a new plant of its own. Point was added to President Angell's fun by the fact that the Record, to support its building, was reported to be vending oysters and liquid refreshment. And the News, though Its new home...
...Bill") Murray ordered Chief Charles Ambrose Burns of the State Bureau of Investigation to make a separate study of the abortion cases and report to him personally. President William Bennett Bizzell of the University of Oklahoma at Norman, some 20 miles from Oklahoma City, said: "The tragedies have caused grave concern at the university. I do not believe, however, that the university can become involved...
...Brigadier General Charles Gates Dawes the New York Stock Exchange is just a "peanut stand" (see p. 12), but to the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency the low price of Wall Street peanuts is a matter of grave concern. Fortnight ago the committee summoned Exchange President Richard Whitney, heard from him that not short selling or bear raids, but liquidation by "people who are trying to give these United States of ours away" is responsible for the currently depressed stock market (TIME, April 25). Last week the committee continued its bear hunt...