Word: grave
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nash might be revolving in his grave. Old Ed Kelly might be fidgeting with alarm. But Illinois' potent Democratic machine, which has customarily counted on tried & tested party professionals to do its toughest campaigning chores, announced last week that its 1948 ticket would be headed by 1) a gentleman and 2) a scholar...
...everyone knows, inflation will be a central issue in the 1948 campaign. Harry Truman got his licks in early: "Inflation and the high cost of living confront the American people-all the American people-with a grave danger. Unchecked inflation can bring on a serious depression that can cause untold hardship. . . . The American people look to the Congress to pass legislation adequate to perform this all-important task. I trust that when the Congress returns it will promptly enact an effective, workable program...
...dawn the conference passed a resolution, approved by 52 of the 71 unions represented: "The conference denounces and condemns the grave acts of violence committed against the workers [by the Communists] during the recent political strikes. . . . The conference resolves to form without delay a new labor federation outside the C.G.T., which has deliberately violated its own statutes...
...Eccles. FRB has the power to make Central Reserve banks (those in Chicago and New York) increase their reserves another 6%. Why didn't it do so? As for Eccles' new plan, Sproul gave it the back of his hand. Said he: "It would expose us to grave monetary disorders. ... A program of modest steps may well be cumulative in effect, in the present sensitive money and credit situation...
Books of verse worth looking into: John Betjeman's Slick But Not Streamlined, mildly satiric and pleasing pieces by a little-known Englishman; Stephen Spender's Poems of Dedication, grave and moving but often prosy; Karl Shapiro's Trial of a Poet, explorations into the relation of an isolated poet to an indifferent society...