Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good indication of the Third Reich's economic plight was that about the time the trade figures were given out the Government asked the public for a loan of 700,000,000 marks ($281,610,000) to be raised by the sale of 4% treasury notes with an average maturity of twelve years. This was the third such loan this year, the tenth since Economics Minister Schacht began to monopolize the capital market in 1935. Although only one-seventh was subscribed by week's end, the loan when completed will bring the Reich's borrowing during...
Trivial as the Palace episode was, it pointed up the plight of the thousands of U.S. musicians thrown out of jobs these many years by records and sound-films. This week, when delegates from all 350 A.F.M. locals assembled in Louisville for their national convention, they began to put their case before the nation. Main purpose of the convention was to decide what might be done about "canned" music. Boss James C. ("Mussolini") Petrillo of the Chicago chapter was out to make national the ban on recording which he enforced locally on union men last winter (TIME, Jan. 4). A.F.M...
...Ireland or Ireland Parnell? That is the question. The result is a hopelessly wishy-washy conflict between mass admiration and the illegal love of a party champion. With both sides in a deadlock, the script solves its problems by killing off Mr. Gable that Ireland may profit from his plight...
...American Committee for Spanish Relief opened a drive for $500,000 with a pageant, "Democracy Imperiled," presented in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. To dramatize the plight of Rightist Spanish civilian sufferers, hundreds of Catholic school children marched in tatters and red-smeared bandages. To represent "Spain" Socialite Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, whose Son Arthur was wounded last October while filming Spanish battle scenes, appeared in one of the spangled costumes in which she annually dazzles the Beaux-Arts Ball...
...addition, topics of this kind will also be taken up in a series of roundtable conferences and public discussions at the School. Among the guest speakers are President Mildred H. McAfee, of Wellesley College, who will talk on "The Plight of the Educated Man," and William Y. Elliot, professor of Government, who will discuss "Great Britain as the Key to World Diplomacy...