Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rousing vote of approval to TIME for its forthright and scathing article, which places the blame for Philadelphia's misgovernment and plight (TIME, Jan. 8) squarely where it belongs. If any scandal calls for national publicity, it is the Republican plunderbund's 50 years of public-be-damned despoilment of our city, to pay for which that party now resorts to taxing the pay envelope of the lowest wage earner. The tragic irony of "honest" (or stupid) Mayor Lamberton's inaugural words, "If it [my administration] fails, you can blame the Republican Party," must be obvious...
...YOUNG-Josephine Lawrence-Little, Brown ($2.50). The Newark, N. J. newspaperwoman who wrote If I Have Four Apples (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) reels off another post-Depression problem story, this time concerning the plight of a manicurist who supports a jobless father and brother, needs love, finds it only among young men who regard her family as too much of liability. In Josephine Lawrence's appealing fiction the rules of composition are observed ("he said" and "she said" correctly varied) and the plot goes merrily as the wedding bell her heroine would like to hear. If the writing were...
...send them quickly. Colonel Zilliacus was having a hard time, for most U. S. plants were clogged with French and British orders. And the Finns' greatest need, artillery and small arms, was even harder to buy in a warring world. A good example of the Finns' plight and of sisu was contained in a letter from a soldier to his sis ter, which Correspondent Leland Stowe cabled to the Chicago Daily News. Excerpts...