Word: plight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson of Philadelphia, an off-&-on Republican, issued invitations to Republican Governor-elect James of Pennsylvania and other interested parties to come and discuss the third city's financial plight. Mayor Wilson revealed that his deficit now tunes up to some $40,000,000. Happier news for Mayor Wilson last week was the quashing, by Common Pleas Judge Harry S. McDevitt, of 21 indictments charging him with misbehavior in office...
...floor, the cool clean air would never have reached his poisoned lungs. Then came his fight with fumes and cold. Cold of eighty below zero which he must endure or else run the risk of the deadly smoke from the stove. Yet he never told Little America of his plight for fear they might lose their lives trying to save him during the winter storms...
...addition, the monotonous world-wide setbacks to Russian and Communist aims and prestige-from the collapse of Bela Kun in Hungary (1919) to the desperate plight of Spanish Leftists today-has discouraged many a Party member through the world. And since the Sudeten crisis, the latest triumph of Fascism, many devoted revolutionaries have bailed out of the Party...
Silent since then, Cardinal Innitzer last week was once more reported in "protective custody," a plight in which presumably he had been for a month. The reporter of this news was an anonymous broadcaster from the Vatican radio station, speaking in English. The Cardinal, he said, had quietly requested that "several trustworthy persons who would leave Austria shortly" be brought to his palace, to behold the unrepaired damage done by the Nazis...
...Current Problems. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn (Little Women, Little Minister, Alice Adams, Mary of Scotland, Quality Street), attacked the cinema industry for its ostrich attitude: ". . . Let a movie try to depict situations in which we are all involved now; let a movie try to wake people up to their own plight . . . ; let a movie try to present a moral, economic or political problem of today honestly and simply, and they are advised to hear nothing, say nothing, do nothing...