Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With enthusiastic undergraduate and graduate backing and a universal respect for Coach Harlow's work, Harvard's candidate for the Big Three title promise to change the sense of the old Whiffenpoof song: "The saddest tale we have to tell...
...crew and passengers run in mad panic one day last week. In mad panic storekeepers bolted their doors. In mad panic constables fled from main streets. In mad panic soldiers on guard at the palace, where President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines was secluded, flourished weapons against the saddest paraders Manila had ever seen. Chanting "Give us Liberty or Give us Death," flaunting the same cry on placards, 235 lepers who are normally cooped up in Manila's San Lazaro Hospital marched through the city's streets, with no one daring to hinder them...
...Saddest of the year...
...campaign speech to his onetime fellow townsmen was Republican Vice Presidential Nominee William Franklin Knox of Chicago. It was in Manchester that Frank Knox gained newspaper fame as publisher of the Manchester Union and Leader which he still owns. While he was there last week his papers carried the saddest dispatch they had ever printed. In Boston 55 miles away a Federal District Court ordered the immediate liquidation of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., biggest cotton textile mill in the U. S. and Manchester's principal industry...
...become special Washington pleader for the Association of American Railroads. Last week dry, quiet, abstemious President Palmer, whose father is still the Maine Central station agent at East Sumner, Me., dragged himself from a gloomy directors meeting in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to perform the saddest duty that ever devolves upon a railroad man. He announced that the New Haven could not meet its obligations, was filing a reorganization petition under the Bankruptcy Act. Mr. Palmer's announcement was hardly a surprise. Indeed, the stockmarket was so resigned to the huge collapse last week that shares...