Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American markets frankly coveted by Japan is the rich U. S. canned fish trade. She has mercilessly attacked the tuna fishing and canning industry of this country by glutting the market in 1933 with 700,000 cases of cheaper-priced goods. The California enterprise is in a desperate plight and the result is appearance of a Japanese delegation offering to settle this trade battle on her own terms...
...dress rehearsal of his anti-Nazi inquiry at which appeared a mysterious "Mr. X'' with armfuls of "evidence" to make scare headlines. Now that he had the formal sanction of the House, Mr. Dickstein proposed to do an even better job of spreading on the record the plight of members of his own race in Germany. Said he last week: "We have dozens of spies coming to America as sailors on German boats. They are trying to spread hate among our people." If the Dickstein investigation has its way the U. S. Capitol will be turned into...
When the wife of France's famed maker of aperitifs heard of her son's plight, she hastily prepared to go to him. Dressmakers, milliners, shoemakers, hairdressers and manicurists stood in line outside her Paris home to outfit her for the trip to the U. S. M. Dubonnet fluttered about the apartment warding off reporters. "Under the present circumstances," he explained, "it seems reasonable to understand that my wife cares to make no statement. I am accompanying her to New York tomorrow. ... I am doing all in my power to spare her. . . ." Once before, when their secret marriage...
...element, and the Royalists have contributed their little bit to the general unrest and dissatisfaction, though they are in a hopeless minority as far as independent action is concerned. It would not be surprising if the fascists won them over, as in Germany, by promises later easily annulled. The plight of the Left Wing is particularly acute in such a nationalistic country, of course, faced by a future which will without doubt exacerbate that fever; apparently they are arming for a real conflict, but they must know their chances are small...
...helpful.' That is 'inaction'; that is standing still in the face of an emergency." Second critic was William Randolph Hearst, who in a radio broadcast from Los Angeles, after praising the President's intentions, condemned NRA practices by parable. Said he: "Indeed, the plight of business has been not unlike that of the young woman in the comedy act of Savoy and Brennan...