Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty had given timely warning of his venture into statecraft, had announced in a speech the winter before that he was resolved to "follow a policy exclusively and entirely Belgian" (TIME, Oct. 26). So long as Germany remained helpless and disarmed by the Treaty of Versailles, the best bet for Belgium had been as an ally of France, but now that Germany has burst her bonds such an alliance would only antagonize the Reich. After His Majesty's trip to London it remained to secure for Belgium whatever treaty pledges Germany might be willing to make, but Leopold...
...whether the Five-Year Plan was a success Eugene Lyons answers: "For whom and for what? Certainly not for the socialist dream, which had been emptied of human meaning in the process, reduced to a mechanical formula of the state as a super-trust and the population as its helpless serfs. Certainly not for the individual worker, whose trade union had been absorbed by the state-employer, who was terrorized by medieval decrees, who had lost even the illusion of a share in regulating his own life. Certainly not for the revolutionary movement of the world, which was splintered, harassed...
...Senator James A. Reed welcomed the lawyers to Kansas City, saying, "In this strange period in our history, the body politic is chained to the political operating table and the dreamers of dreams and the seers of visions are permitted at will to cut and probe and slash the helpless victim." Two days later Nebraska's anti-New Deal Senator Edward R. Burke appealed to the legal profession's self-pity: "There was a time when the banker was the favorite 'whipping boy.' The welts of the lash upon the . . . banker may now be permitted...
...Strafaci. that his timing went bad. Nevertheless, he was not beaten until the final green, where he looked up prematurely on a short approach shot then missed a 5-ft. putt. Next day in the semi-finals Champion Fischer's woods were crooked, his irons ragged his putter helpless, and he was beaten 6 & 5 by Ray Billows, straight-hitting, 23-year-old printing salesman of Poughkeepsie N. Y. In the other semi-final match Johnny Goodman, Omaha insurance salesman nosed out Marvin ("Bud") Ward, Tacoma tax clerk. That left Goodman v. Billows for the final...
...Still drawing Government pensions from the War of 1812 are Mrs. Caroline King, 88, East Aurora, N. Y. widow, and Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 80, of Independence, Ore. who was. pensioned as a helpless child because of blindness...