Word: luckless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the lame-duck Sarraut Government lashed about for foreign exchange speculators to tag as franc raiders, expelled one luckless Pole from the country as an example, discussed innumerable measures for the "defense'' of the franc, hoped it could pass on to the incoming "Popular Front" the unpleasant task of actual devaluation. Cried Finance Minister Marcel Régnier: "So long as I am Finance Minister there will be no measures restricting the gold standard. . . . We have ample reserves for our defense and the Bank of France possesses every means of action needed...
...lobby the luckless cameraman was identified as Frank Muto of Hearst's International News Photos, who had bought a seat early, kept his camera hidden until the chance came to snap the conductor bowing his goodbye. The audience filed out denouncing the Hearstling as a "desecrator," a "barbarian," a "vandal." But Frank Muto Was unabashed while he waited to get his camera back. One blazing-eyed young woman marched up to him and flayed him for having "marred the ending of a great historic concert." "But it might have been a grand picture," retorted Frank Muto...
Thus television claimed its first victim in the U. S. Engineer Lawrence might have been the first victim anywhere had not another luckless televisionist fatally fumbled an adjustment year ago in London's Crystal Palace (TIME, March...
...children in the House gallery, and Mother Parker, undoing her dress, gave her youngest suck. As tactfully as possible the House doorkeeper ushered the jobless family out while Congressmen, torn between personal modesty and political respect for motherhood, felt their ears grow red (TIME, July 8). Last week the luckless Parker family again made front-page news on the floor of the House...
...last week this luckless Hindu found himself inundated in Calcutta by an avalanche of suggested cures, but his offer was still open. Further suggestions may be addressed in care of Calcutta's great native newsorgan The Star Of India...