Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...today's living war victims: "I could debate with great emotion who is responsible for their plight. That is not the question. Its answer could not allay the immeasurable, stark tragedy to tens of millions of innocent men, women and children...
Many a scholar and many a liberal have looked with increasing concern at not only the plight of the European Jew, but also at the rising tides of anti-Semitism in our own country. Even at Harvard, the Jewish student is received and treated upon a slightly different basis from his fellow students. And although this difference is, fortunately, very slight and is limited to social activities (clubs, dances) the fact that at this time it exists at all is a threat to the future. This slight difference can grow; and if our country enters upon a period of social...
...increasingly powerful during the war, be still more powerful after it. Ambassador Winant knows the leaders of British labor from his days in Geneva, has their confidence as no career diplomat or wealthy businessman like Joseph Kennedy could hope to gain it. The desperate urgency of Britain's plight may have united Britons more than doctrinaire and class-conscious U. S. citizens can believe possible; but the U. S. is taking no chance of being caught unawares if dissatisfaction develops in British labor. Before the Winant appointment was a week old it was disclosed that Benjamin Cohen...
...right that the Italian people should be made to feel the sorry plight into which they have been dragged by Dictator Mussolini, and if the cannonade of Genoa, rolling along the coast, reverberating in the mountains, has reached the ears of our French comrades in their grief and misery, it may cheer them with the feeling that friends, active friends, are near and that Britannia rules the waves...
...Sister Eileen (by Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov, produced by Max Gordon). Several years ago The New Yorker ran some wry, funny sketches by Ruth McKenney describing the screwy plight of herself and her sister Eileen on first moving into Greenwich Village. Last week Eileen McKenney and her husband, Novelist Nathaniel West (Miss Lonely hearts, The Day of the Locust}, were killed in an auto accident while returning to California from a Mexican hunting trip. And last week sister Ruth's sketches were the basis of a new Broadway comedy hit, directed by George S. Kaufman...