Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utmost significance that he does not plan to go to Moscow, although the French Republic has a military pact with the Soviet Union (TIME, May 13, 1935). All during the London negotiations and subsequently last week, London and Paris correspondents kept hearing in the highest quarters the opinion that grave unrest is stirring in Russia; that the Soviet Union's effective strength in warfare has been greatly reduced by these conditions; that Dictator Stalin is now maintaining himself in power only by the most terroristic methods. These points came out not as "news" but as the considered opinions...
However, the day before Mr. Carlisle's visit, President Roosevelt talked with a powerman whose case is a comprehensive summation of the industry's present grave problems-Wendell Lewis Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., a billion-dollar holding company with a huge chunk of its operating properties located smack in the centre of invading TVA's sphere. Though he has become the industry's spokesman in dealing with the New Deal, Mr. Willkie is by no means a typical powerman. A blunt homespun Hoosier who got into power by way of the law-after...
Continued the President: "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... I will tell you frankly that, if an overwhelming majority of our electors go to the polls, many Fascist gang leaders will stop and think: 'Look -not only is their army strong, but even greater power stands behind the army...
...picturized school reports still have one grave defect. They have not been able to find text to match their illustrations. Their words are still the bumbling literary efforts of pedagogs, usually dull, often pompous. Sample from the Los Angeles report...
Meanwhile at the cemetery, where a hard rain was falling, laborers abandoned a plan to stage a sit-down and took themselves off. Soon another body arrived. It lay in an open grave all night. Next day came six more. As more funeral processions, unaware of the strike, continued to arrive at the cemetery. New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia saw an emergency...