Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep harping on the sad plight of our neighbor country...
...editors agreed last week that Hungary's financial plight, the closing of her banks at the time of the German crash, the government's emergency decrees to prevent the exporting of money, were the basis of Count Bethlen's troubles. Matters grew acute some weeks ago when Count Bethlen, faced by a growing opposition among the deputies, appointed, before Parliament adjourned, a committee of 33 to help him govern the country by decree...
...Church, contained an editorial which asked again for a $250,000 endowment, predicted the speedy demise of the publication unless its friends gave help. Last week's Living Church revealed the progress of the week's drive-$80 had been received. Editor Frederic Cook Morehouse blamed the plight of The Living Church on advertisers' preference for secular magazines of larger circulation, on increased costs of publication since the war, and on financial losses to Morehouse Publishing Co. (Milwaukee) which had previously been able to pay Living Church deficits out of profits from the sale of religious books...
...From Washington came announcement that a conference would be called to bring together miners and operators. President John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers had suggested such a meeting to President Hoover in a message saying that the plight of miners was "below animal standards." Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont emerged from a meeting with the President, announced that some 125 invitations had been sent to bituminous operators asking if they would attend a discussion with workers in the near future. Three weeks prior Secretary Lamont had summoned a dozen of the big bituminous operators to a conference...
Shoot the Works! Nobody could accuse Heywood Broun of misanthropy. Weighed down by public woe, he has run for Congress on the Socialist ticket, flayed Mayor Walker in his World-Telegram colyum, and now, saddened by the plight of the jobless actors, has staged a cooperative revue. None but the players can profit. If the show succeeds they will be paid; if not they will be no worse off than before. The show's backers expect no profits...