Word: plights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Brigadier General Frank Thomas Hines, administrator of Veterans' Affairs: "The peace of the world is in perilous plight. . . . The plans which have been developed [in this country] are for the mobilization of industry, the technological sciences, and agriculture. . . . The present complement of medical and dental officers will have to be increased from around 1,216 regulars and 18,778 reservists to a corps consisting of approximately 40,000 medical and dental officers...
Reason for the farmer's plight is not, as TIME seems to imply, failure to put a duty on Brazil's babassu nut. Prime reason is compulsory pasteurization of milk in all major markets. Familiar is everyone with the cry of the orthodox medic that pasteurization kills disease bacteria which might be present in milk. Unfamiliar is the average person with the fact that lactic acid-producing bacteria normally present in milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city...
...Lampoon, was cut from the CRIMSON, was head cheerleader during the football season of 1909, wrote the Pudding show, and consumed champagne and caviar at some of the best Boston deb parties. He went to New York, fell under the wing of Lincoln Steffens, became interested in the plight of labor, organized a gigantic labor pageant, was jailed for radical activities. Went to Mexico as war correspondent, made friends with Pancho Villa, saw the smoking ruins of the homes of Colorado laborers, went to Europe to cover the news of the War there. He warned against America's entrance...
...Island, one of the three "Safety Islands" off the Guiana Coast. Devil's Island's fame originated largely from the fact that it was there that Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for four and one-half years. Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished. To novelists and cinema producers it has been a boon.* Agitation for the abolition of the penal colony has steadily grown in France. Succeeding Ministers of Justice have always spiked the move, but Minister Marc Rucart is one French Minister...
Farmers in the Drought area last week could be thankful that this is a campaign year. Next week both Democratic and Republican Presidential nominees will join to give the farmers' plight their best attention when they meet at Des Moines...