Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile coal reserves diminished to a point where industry would begin to feel a real shortage within a fortnight. Railroads in mining areas, deprived of their biggest traffic, laid off men by thousands. Big B. & 0., in worse plight for its own coal supplies than most, began to "confiscate" (and of course pay for) coal consigned to other users over its lines. Pennsylvania's Legislature at Harrisburg formally begged the negotiators to come to terms. Here and there union pickets dumped coal trucked from non-union mines, and police began to worry that prolonged abstention might turn into...
...have taken no official stand on the I.R.A. While deploring its anti-British tactics, they, like other Irishmen, publicly approve its ideal of a free, united Ireland. The bishops' position in Eire is so satisfactory, however, that many of them would gladly let well enough alone, despite the plight of the unhappy Catholic minority in Northern Ireland. The most ardent partisans of Irish rebellion are to be found in the U. S., where a great many of the Catholic clergy are of Irish origin. In Manhattan last month, I.R.A. clubs joined other Irish groups in a "monster commemoration...
Baptists throughout the world, apprised of the plight of their Rumanian coreligionists, raised a mighty squawk. Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, went to Bucharest to see King Carol. When the King visited London last November, British Baptists and other Protestants sat on his doorstep until they were permitted to tell their story to the Rumanian Foreign Minister. Last February, Baptists devoted a "Day of Prayer" throughout the world to the Rumanian situation. Patriarch Cristea, fairly promptly, died (TIME, March...
...Puritan's Progress" unfolds the plight of an "A" student who falls into the toils of a buxom Dorchester lass. To be blunt, and the play is, he has to marry her. To his rescue comes Uncle Joe Whipple, erstwhile Beacon Hill Harvardian who has spent his post-college life in the Yukon. Uncle Joe lays $50,000 in gold on the line if young Whipple gets kicked out and marries Dorchester's Polly Dugan. Whip tries hard, aided by his room-mates. But something always comes up to change the whole aspect of his misdemeanors...
Student sympathy for the plight of the out-of-Housers was evidenced by an H.S.U. investigation f the problem early in 1938. Last spring a Freshman committee's recommendations that the associate membership plan be tried was rejected by the Housemasters. It was on the basis of a thorough Council investigation that they reversed their stand this week...