Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BABY MANNFRIED, square-faced and broad-beamed, was born ten months ago. He is the only one in the Hauptmann family who takes no interest in his father's plight. Chubby Mannfried smiled happily while his mother, in tears, sang a German lullaby for a newsreel...
...system when it was first tried, recent years have proven that something is indeed lacking in this scheme of helping the bewildered. The adviser has not been the real aid that he should, be has not been looked to as a means to lead the harassed individual from the plight that he invariably finds himself in at the beginning of this utterly new side of educational life. Criticisms and vituperation were heaped upon the heads of the advisers for it was felt that it was they themselves who were responsible for the failure of a system which everyone felt should...
...sent him scurrying ashore to shelter. As the storm abated he saw Mairi nose in toward shallow water, buckle up on a rock, spill her crew into the sea. Yachtsman Coward started to hike. Twenty miles down the coast he walked into the village of Ile Rousse, told his plight to a skeptical hotelkeeper, who cabled London. When Coward got back to the wreck he waded in to salvage what he could, then sailed to Nice, reporting: "All of the crew were saved. I went up to my neck in bilgewater on the wreck and managed to save my passport...
Railroadmen were cheered last week, however, by what they took to be White House recognition of their plight. Having lately spent a week-end with President Roosevelt aboard the Sequoia, Editor Raymond Moley led off his main editorial in last week's issue of Today: "No friend of the New Deal is likely to grow enthusiastic over the progress of its railroad policies." And after listing all the railroad's woes, Editor Moley concluded: "There are many complaints from business, these days, that hardly stand examination. But these of the railroads are unquestionably an exception. . . . The Administration has a railroad...
...political amnesty "My Leader" pardoned: 1) insults to Adolf Hitler or the German Government; 2) offenses against "the wealthy or prosperous," provided the crime did not originate from "convictions hostile to the race or state";* 3) crimes committed from "excessive zeal" to further Nazi purposes. To ease the plight of Nazi innocents caught in the Roehm Mutiny and not yet "purged" by shooting, "My Leader" especially decreed last week that all imprisoned mutineers shall have their cases "sympathetically re-examined...