Word: plights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally these men will get little sympathy because they will be classed, ipso facto, as dumb bunnies. Neither tutor, lecturer, nor department head can be brought to a boil about their plight and they may well land up, therefore, by being shunted off to University 4 and left to the unfortunate ministrations of those little Napoleons, the baby deans. Lest these men who, when tutorial is gone, will have very little left to turn to except Widener, drag the whole scheme into bad repute and allow it to develop ultimately into a two-degree system such as Oxford, with...
...friends to come this night to my fireside. Like a very father to his family I want to hold with you a fireside chat." The company looks at him anxiously. It is clear he is the most popular of men. "You have heard much of late of the sad plight of my country, of my struggles against that grasping man, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who aims to set himself up as the ruler of this land, yea, against the very government itself...
...France-British campaign was a formal statement that American sympathizes for an end to the armament race. That the address are with European democracies in general cannot well be doubted in view of the wording of the speech. Stating that the people of America are "not indifferent to" the plight of those nations who are striving to maintain the "tradition of western civilization", the Ambassador clearly hints at assistance from the United States in a war. Americans and French alike cannot overlook the significance of such a statement. Regardless whether or not the address had received the official stamp...
Therefore last week the plight of a hitherto unnoticed Mme Drouard-Marquiset fascinated all prosperous French men. Secret agents had discovered in Switzerland at the Banque Commercials de Bâle a deposit in the name of Mme Drouard-Marquiset which she had omitted to disclose, as required by law. Result...
...plants are shut down. Far from resting on its arms, G. M. continued to cultivate with spirit and shrewdness the public sympathy drawn to it by: 1) its reasonableness in offering to negotiate any issue when the strikers should cease their "unlawful occupation" of its plants; 2) the plight of non-union workers unwillingly deprived of work & pay. In Manhattan, President Sloan issued a vigorous statement rehearsing both points. Listeners to the nation-wide General Motors radio hour heard a homily on "The Right to Work." In Detroit, Vice President Knudsen announced that, to give 95,000 nonstriking employes...