Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosperity at a time when unemployment is causing acute suffering, the Massachusetts Republicans lose sight of their public duty when in a Walpole-like fashion they refuse to go to the polls on a straightforward platform. Prohibition is the issue in this election and it is an issue of grave importance for the future welfare of the Commonwealth. For the Republican press to becloud that issue with nonsense about a Democratic depression is to affirm their belief in the doctrine that it is easy to fool enough of the people at election time...
...help thinking how touched Mark Twain would be with the inscription on the little pomeranian's final resting place! (TIME, Sept. 29, Oct. 13). Over Mrs. Clemens' grave, too, stands a stone engraved with the epitaph...
...edge of town in lieu of ?3 still owing on the original purchase. On this land Uncas was supposed to have been buried along with his grandson Sam and other "royal" descendants. In 1833 President Andrew Jackson went to Norwich, laid the foundation for an Uncas monument over his grave. Lack of money delayed construction for nine years. Finally a seven-foot granite obelisk marked UNCAS...
...afternoon and evening while the Official Gazette (which must print all congressional acts before they can become effective) was held open. Foes of Gen. Machado shouted that such authority as he asked can only be granted under the Constitution "in the case of invasion of Na tional territory or grave disturbance of order...
...Machado what he asked, made him in fact Dictator. By way of passing his coup off suavely Dictator Machado left Havana on a brief fishing trip, tried to appear in U. S. eyes as much as possible like President Hoover, returned to his Palace, waited. At the State Department "grave concern" about the Cuban situation was admitted for the first time by Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. But, quoting his patron and one of his predecessors as Secretary of State, Elder Statesman Elihu Root (in whose law office he was apprenticed), Mr. Stimson intimated that there will be no "intermeddling...