Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legation in Copenhagen last week officials, sympathetic with Denmark's plight, said off the record that the Danish National Bank has for some time been informally discriminating against U.S. exports. Such action probably violates the U. S.-Danish most favored nation treaty, but Washington has made only cautious, informal protests. Reason: a squabble now would merely embitter U. S. Danish relations, would make it harder for President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt to make a success of his policy of tariff bargaining with foreign nations...
...that the U. S. would expect full payment Dec. 15 and that the President would recommend another debt commission to Congress. Nothing was said about the certain rejection by Congress of this recommendation. Secretary Stimson's language to Britain made it plain that the Hoover Administration considered her plight graver than France's or Belgium's, that revision by capacity-to-pay would be likeliest in her case...
...Washington but Wall Street that's ruined us. It's not Mr. Hoover who made the Depression. He isn't big enough. It's the breakdown of the capitalist system itself. . . . No budget is balanced that ignores the desperate plight of 13,000,000 unemployed...
...defendant was an attractive Polish woman named Mrs. Dorothy Mysza Pollak, 26, who shot her husband in the -eye. Recalling the devastating satire in Maurine Watkins' play Chicago, in which blonde Roxie Hart was in a somewhat similar plight, Chicago newspapers took satire into their own hands, tagged Mrs. Pollak as "Chicago's most beautiful slayer...
...famed for her oldtime vaudeville singing ("I Don't Care!") was discovered to be destitute, critically ill of Bright's disease, rheumatism and a heart ailment, nearly blind. Since last May she had occupied a small cottage in Hollywood, refusing to let her friends know her plight. When the news spread, Mrs. Lucy Cotton...