Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college, especially an obscure female church institution, could find plenty of uses for one million dollars. How sad the plight of one which sees $1,000,000 snatched from its grasp! Such was the plight last week of Beaver College at Jenkintown, Pa. (Philadelphia suburb...
...high. The White House threatened a veto if its will were denied. The Senate had "principles" it swore it would never surrender. The House, through its Speaker, raged and cursed to have its own way. Meanwhile the destitute of the nation trembled in fear lest they in their plight get nothing from a quarrelsome capital. Early this month the House passed (215-to-182) an omnibus relief bill backed by Speaker Garner. Using this bill as a parliamentary frame, the Senate struck out all the House provisions and substituted a measure of its own devised by Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner...
...that they cannot. "Of Thee I Sing" has effectively satirized, in Wintergreen's plank of Love, the attempt to convince by appeal to the emotions with neglect of the discriminating intelligence. The Consumer's Research Bulletin is finding wide approval. Mr. Batten has done a service by describing the plight of the advertising man of principle, who must compete with his less ethical collegue, and by placing the responsibility for our charlatan industrial life where it belongs, on the public. When, and only when individual consumers resolve not to buy any article whose advertisers insult his intelligence, will this profession...
...Senate last week voted the equivalent of $2.45 each for every man, woman & child in the land, to help those who need it through the Depression. It was the first bill providing direct Federal relief for the destitute, passed by the overwhelming vote of 72-to-8. Public plight had triumphed over political principle. The cry of "Dole!" was muted. Even President Hoover approved...
...Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky are typified by this incident. The Communist organizers have taken advantage of the situation to win an unreasoning allegiance for their cause, and to implant hatred for the operators even in the children. According to their own ethics they are completely justified in ignoring the plight of the operators who have faced insuperable difficulties on account of the growing use of substitutees for coal. In the same spirit the capitalists feel no compunctions in employing every means to combat the miners, even to the subversion of police power. Neither side considers the problem intelligently...