Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ostensibly, these conferences are held only in order to alleviate the economic plight of Austria and Hungary by the formation of more favorable trade relations with Italy; no other power, it seems, is willing to take this step which is necessary if Austrian independence is to be maintained; hence Italy has nobly and altruistically come to the rescue quite devoid of any nordid ambitions. That this is pure buncombe it is hardly necessary to point out. What has happened is simply that Mussolini has seen that this is the opportunity of a lifetime to institute a defensive alliance with Austria...
...crusader against social ills. To his critics' assertion that his indignation proceeded from no plan, that he had no social program, his defenders reply that his attacks did much of the spadework that made programs possible. In many a passage in his novels he pictured the desperate plight of the metropolitan poor, their crowded and filthy dwellings, the ignorance, disease and dirt that was complacently assumed to be their lot. Dickens pilloried child labor (David Copper field), venaliy-conducted charitable institutions (Oliver Twist), legal mummery (Bleak House). His account of the protracted suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce...
...which the American government has made of the weapon of recognition in order to discredit his predecessors and force their overthrow. The plain fact of the matter is that Cuba just barely tolerates a conservative government, for the country has become radical at heart due to the desperate economic plight of recent years. The situation since the occasion of Mendieta has improved very little if at all. Business is still practically at a standstill, the agricultural regions have undergone inconceivable suffering, and the workers are not unnaturally turning to radical social remedies, not particularly as the best...
...Third Republic the Cabinet contained two generals. Marshal Pétain, defender of Verdun, was the new Minister of War. General Victor Denain, onetime military aide to President Doumergue, is the new Minister for Air. The Cabinet of Premiers' first move was to announce that the plight of Austria was quite as vital to France as anything happening at home. Premier Doumergue and Ministers Herriot, Tardieu, and Barthou formed a sort of Directorate of Four to take up the problem at once. This was followed by an official footnote to reassure Frenchmen that this group had no intention...
Equipment. Car and locomotive builders find it difficult to shed tears over the plight of the railroads or any other industry since, of all the makers of capital goods, they have suffered the most in Depression. In 1929 there were 1,200 locomotives ordered. In 1932 U. S. locomotive builders received orders for three- two for domestic industrial use and one for a Brazilian cement company which was built by American Locomotive Co. in its Canadian shops. Last year they got orders for 17-twelve for domestic railroads, four for industrial use, one for the Philippine Railway...