Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plight of the U. S. theatre as an industry is as sorry as that of any other industry. In October 1929, 30,000 people made their living from show business as actors in burlesque, vaudeville, stock companies, tent shows as well as in legitimate drama and musical presentations. How many of these still have work is not known, but paid-up memberships in the Actors' Equity Association have declined 70%. In Manhattan, the Actors' Fund, Rachel Crothers' Stage Relief Fund and the benignantly tactful Actors' Dinner Club-where nobody knows who pays for two dinners...
...health? In my own case, I get one less hour of sleep each night. Think, too, of the psychological effect. It's like having a cannon go off outside your window! It usually spoils my whole morning, and I am sure I am not alone in my plight...
...hands the toughest municipal campaign in a decade to keep John Patrick O'Brien, its prognathous, bumbling Mayor, in New York City Hall. Against Tammany is arrayed an aggressive fusion ticket headed by short, swart, pugnacious Fiorello La Guardia. City finances are in such a plight that Tammany must impose additional taxes on the eve of election. Yet last week Tammany got two lucky breaks from two grand juries in Manhattan which did much to pluck up its sagging political spirits...
...threat, camped in an office across the street with a rifle in his lap, waiting for Garr to appear. Warned in time, Garr sneaked in a back entrance. Day after day the patient rifleman waited. After a week's slinking Garr, worried lest the story of his plight leak out and raise a laugh at his expense, called off his ambusher by printing an apology. When Carrie Watson, his mistress but a madam in her own right, bore him a son whom she refused to surrender, they parted coldly. Garr balanced their account when she died of an overdose...
...plenary session at which speakers of all nations will spout on July 27, must then adjourn. As president of the Conference, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald declared that the Conference will surely reconvene next October, but a majority of delegates felt unquestionably that it was dead. Pittman's Plight. Who killed Cock Conference? Everyone except the U. S. delegation privately pinned this honor on President Roosevelt. His refusal to negotiate either stabilization of currencies (TIME, July 10) or even "steadying" of the dollar (TIME, July 17) created an atmosphere in which the Conference concluded that it could not tackle...