Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bituminous coal strikes arose from the unwillingness or inability of operators to pay a wage minimum which Labor and operators had agreed to at a conference held in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1924. That conference was under the auspices of Secretaries Davis of Labor and Hoover of Commerce. Thus the gravest charge made at last week's conference was when Vice President Philip Murray of the United Mine Workers said that the Pittsburgh Coal Co. had "deliberately slapped the Government of the United States in the face in violating the Jacksonville agreement...
...blame and a warning." What did these so contradictory decisions portend? Soon the dean of U. S. correspondents at Moscow, Walter Duranty of the New York Times, cabled an opinion: "All signs now indicate that the Communist Party has emerged stronger than ever from what appeared to be the gravest crisis in its history. . . . Here is the real secret of the events of the past week. The stage was all set for a split-one might almost say it actually occurred-and then suddenly, almost miraculously, it was averted." The greater part of the Committee's 5,000-word...
...mention first the insinuations of Mr. Dillington-Dowse against the people of the United States. Secondly I should like to express the opinion that his patronizing belittlement of, TIME, coupled with the ridiculous mishandling of tense in his letter, arouses in my mind the very gravest suspicions as to how he obtained the stationery bearing the imprint of the "Author's Club, 2 Whitehall Court, S. W. 1, London, England...
Russophobe Note: "His Majesty's Government consider it necessary to warn the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in the gravest terms that there are limits beyond which it is dangerous to drive public opinion in this country and that the continuance of such acts as here complained of must sooner or later render inevitable the abrogation of the trade agreement,* the stipulations of which have been so flagrantly violated, and even the severance of ordinary diplomatic relations...
...outbreak of the organized general strike was the gravest domestic event in my lifetime. If it had succeeded Parliamentary Government would have been at an end. It was an action of mine which made this a ground of controversy in the Liberal ranks and it was with as much distress as surprise that I found that my public declarations were met with a challenge from a quarter [the Lloyd Georgians] which it was impossible for me to disregard...