Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day Secretary Woodin emphatically denied that he or other Treasury experts were opposed to the President's policies. The well-known fact remains that the Treasury and Federal Reserve group favor hard money, look upon the Warren experiment with misgivings. -The five other helpless States: Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas...
...particular, should raise more proletarian huzzas. Plain readers will find it uncomfortably interesting reading. More effective as anti-bankster propaganda than a more straightforward indictment, Cash Item is writtten in bare, matter-of-fact, day-to-day style. Authoress Brody lets her ordinary people's hopeless predicament and helpless indignation speak for themselves...
...mellifluous drone accompanies too, too many scenes. In the childhood shots, it is reminiscent of some unhappy travelogue; in the love sequences it garners those derisive chortles, which are the customary part of "Screen Memories;" in the rest, it flows on, and on and on, incessant, monotonous, wracking a helpless audience...
...been postponed for three hours because of rough water, the Delphine V sputtered out from her boat well, where mechanics had been trying to solder up leaks in her fuel lines. Two miles below the grandstands, she burst into flames. Her crew drove her ashore, stood by safe but helpless while Delphine V burned to the waterline...
...Pinkerton man to deduce their identity. Mongrel German police dogs from nearby farms, running singly or in pairs, had been making sheep and poultry raids in the neighborhood. Reconstructing the scene, Ashgrove employes saw the dogs burrowing under the field's six-foot wire fence, descending on the helpless turkeys, tossing them through windows in frenzied bloodlust. New York law requires each county to indemnify owners of livestock killed by raiding dogs. Day after the slaughter an assessor was at Ashgrove appraising the damage. One day last week Saratoga County heard how much the turkeys had cost...