Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury Arthur Atwood Ballantine. Most of Detroit's industrial and banking tycoons jammed the smoke-blue room. At 2 a. m. Governor Comstock announced simply that he would declare a holiday. Over the violent protest of the bankers, he told the "unvarnished story" of Union Guardian's plight...
...Neither interest in Soprano Leider nor Baritone Tibbett's success in Emperor Jones (TIME, Jan. 16) has been enough to keep the Metropolitan out of the financial plight in which it found itself last spring. Despite reduced salaries and a shortened season a $400,000 deficit had directors wondering last week whether to disband or attempt drastic reorganization. Most credible rumor: a twelve weeks' season in New York might be combined with visits to other cities which would be called upon for backing. Louis Eckstein, Ravinia's patron and newest of the Metropolitan's directors, would...
...sorrier sight than a clergyman errant, about to be unfrocked. From his embarrassing plight the pious eye is usually averted, but a congregation in Muncie, Ind. last week found this impossible. As Sunday evening service was about to begin, 50 people sat uneasily in Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Behind the pulpit stood their 55-year-old pastor. Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, tall, spare, grim-faced, with lank grey locks falling over his high forehead and gold teeth glinting between thin lips. That morning Mr. Conway had announced that Willard F. Aurand, the choirmaster, would not be present...
...encounter a Harvard varsity hokey team that has been considerably chastened in the Crimson's next major battle at Princeton on January 14. Saturday night's overwhelming defeat, 8-1, at the hands of a whirlwind Toronto team n New York has left the Cambridge skaters in a sad plight. Although the Crimson got the jump at the start and repeatedly carried the puck to the visitor's cage, the Toronto goalie, Shipp, prevented a score by some miraculous stops during the first 15 minutes of the Harvard offense. It was not until the second period that the Canadians...
Alarmed at the plight of U. S. birds whose food supply has been buried under deep snow, Audubon Society officials recently went to the Post Office Department with an idea. Last week First Assistant Postmaster General Arch Coleman announced that bird-lovers may mail cracked corn and small grain, to be scattered by rural mail carriers along their routes. Sufficient address: "Mr. & Mrs. Bird...