Word: plights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Italy was not living up to her sworn obligations. When Adolf Hitler came to power the South Tyrolese hoped that this exponent of "One People, One State, One Leader" would soon look into their case. The Führer soon showed, however, that he would not allow the plight of a mere 200,000 Germans to interfere with the destiny of some 80,000,000. At Rome, in May 1938, the Führer declared before Il Duce that the present Italian-German frontiers were inviolable...
...higher above the market price (40¾?). For four long days last week they tied up other legislation while they "explained" their aims to the Senate and nation. Senator Pittman, an Administration man in most things, gave Secretary Morgenthau a ferocious wigging for not telling the President about the plight of 318,000 Westerners who (Pittman said), dependent on silver production & processing, were thrown out of work when the Treasury lowered its silver subsidy price from 77.57? per oz. to 64.64?. Senator Pittman demanded $1.29 per oz., which he called "normal...
...Oram, commander of the Fifth Submarine flotilla but not of the Thetis. Before he knew that help was at hand he had volunteered to take his chances getting out of the dangerously tilted escape chamber. He and six others, with messages of the submarine's plight strapped to their wrists, were to act as human marker buoys, dead or alive. Of the seven, only Captain Oram and three others reached the surface. He was surprised to find the Brazen standing by. That news was also flashed ashore...
...once a year, when he goes to the annual outing of the Bond Club of New York at Tarrytown's Sleepy Hollow Country Club, he gets a laugh out of his plight. His laugh-provoker is the Bawl Street Journal, a bawdy scapegrace parody of the highly reputable Wall Street Journal. Edited by stocky, literate John A. Straley, pulp fiction writer and wholesale representative for Calvin Bullock, investment bankers, last week's 17th annual edition of the Bawl Street Journal (11,000 copies at 50?) was a sardonic reflection of the state of U. S. Business today...
After summarizing his two previous lectures in which he pointed out that the prosperity of the West had been due to the increase of the increment value of land, the dean of American newspapermen described the plight they were new in with the reckless era of expansion definitely concluded...