Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eastern conservatives chortled with glee at the stupidity of a diddering old doctor who proposed to solve the depression and the ills of democracy by taxing the rich to support the poor in their declining years. They prophesied a speedy end for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the party along side of the Greenbackers and Populists. Yet today the movement claims 25,000,000 supporters and has even begun to organize clubs in that stronghold of conservation shrewdness--New England...
...Chamber of Deputies' confidence in his entire foreign policy, which clearly is based on attempted resurrection of The Deal. Close was the vote, but the Premier won a majority of 20. which later rose to 43 on a vote of confidence in his Government. He still stood in grave risk of defeat by a subsequent vote-i. e. he stood where he has stood through 1935. If still Premier at midnight on Dec. 31. Pierre Laval can well consider himself France's Man Of The Year...
...told, the next British move would have been made by Captain Anthony Eden at Geneva to have the League of Nations reject the terms as morally odious and commence bargaining Italy down. In Italian eyes this week, war with England became increasingly probable as Benito Mussolini suddenly appeared tired, grave and grim in contrast to his high spirits and buoyant good humor up to the very hour last week before Sir Samuel Hoare resigned. In Italian opinion the last and most outrageous straw was the appointment this week of "Tony" Eden as British Foreign Secretary (see below...
...credit management to the Federal Reserve Board. Last week, for the fourth time in 1935, the members of those august bodies met in Washington, looked at one another with sad eyes. They had met to part but even their parting was not allowed to be sweet sorrow. A grave problem and bitter issue was on hand to discomfit even their valedictory...
...late U. S. District Judge William I. Grubb of Birmingham, Ala. was regarded by lawyers who practiced before him as one of the fairest judges, one of the ablest authorities on law in the South. Judge Grubb propounded a series of decisions to the grave disadvantage of NRA and TVA. Last week his successor was appointed: David J. Davis, great & good friend and onetime law partner of Alabama's Senator Hugo La Fayette Black. Said the Birmingham bar when he was proposed for the job: "Courteous . . . considerate . . . efficient." As a faithful follower of New Dealer Black, Judge Davis...