Word: moribundity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...marbled halls of Herbert Hoover's monument, the new Department of Commerce Building, both phases of the Recovery Act are being administered. Last week movers were cluttering up its halls with furniture from the offices of the moribund R. F. C. Pert young clerks by the score were inking up rubber stamps and, like hungry buzzards, Congressmen had already scented out the headquarters of the government's newest and grandest handout...
...glad to take care of the old President's special friend. President Hoover looked happy for the first and only time on that ride up Capitol Hill. Last week President Roosevelt kept his March 4 promise by appointing Mr. New ton to be a Republican member of the moribund Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The job pays $9,000 per year. Though Nebraska's Norris called the nomination a "slap in the face to all progressive Republicans," the Senate confirmed...
...about all that is left of the Four-Power Pact after an emasculation which Il Duce (once an editor) described last week as "editing." To friends of Disarmament the Mussolini Pact in its final form did seem, however, to sound indirectly the doom of the Disarmament Conference, moribund for the past 16 months. "Should questions . . . remain in suspense on conclusion of that Conference," reads Article III of Il Patto a Quattro, the signatories "reserve the right to re-examine these questions between themselves . . . with a view to insuring their solution through the appropriate channels." That Dictator Mussolini has no patience...
...editorials of the second issue of the Harvard Critic express the same apologetic point of view as those of the first. "We know that this is poor stuff, but then this is Harvard, academic, in different, intellectually moribund Harvard; what can you expect?" Once more the editors cry out for someone with something...
...Sunday the Roosevelts and the MacDonalds went for a seven-hour cruise down the Potomac on the Sequoia. Because it was chilly on deck the President and the Prime Minister sat below talking, talking, talking, mostly about disarmament and how to bring the moribund Geneva Conference back to life and a happy ending. Back at the White House Mrs. Roosevelt scrambled some eggs in a chafing dish for family supper...