Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controversy raised its head: labor leaders prepared to urge the American Federation of Labor convention next week at Tampa to demand that Congress place the whole old-age pension tax on employers instead of splitting it half-&-half between employer and employe. This they proposed in vain when the Act was originally passed. Now they hope to succeed, being buttressed by the arguments of many Republican employers who before election stirred up resentment against the tax "pay deduction." Since the great majority of employers will shift the tax to their customers, Labor as the largest consumer will pay most...
...wholly in vain that the high-strung leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Major Clement Attlee, barked like a terrier at St. Bernard Baldwin: "The Mediterranean has been abandoned to the Fascist State! The Far East has been abandoned to Japan! What is left? The policy of this Government has not brought us nearer to Peace, but closer and closer...
...reader of TIME for several years, I searched through your Oct. 12 issue for some report of President Roosevelt's visit to Elkins, W. Va., to speak and attend the Mountain State Forest Festival. He went from there to speak in Pittsburgh. I searched in vain, for it wasn't to be found. His special train was met by Governor Kump, Senator Neely and others. He was introduced to the crowd of at least 20,000 by Governor Kump and after his talk on reforestation he witnessed the beautiful coronation ceremony of Queen Sylvia VII. At least...
Many a patriotic citizen within & without the G. A. R. had tried in vain to stop the advancing tide. In 1882 Senator Hawley of Connecticut declared: "There are no men who will pass a severer judgment on excessive or unnecessary or fraudulent pensions than the soldiers themselves...
...your issue of Sept. 7 under the heading Medicine, you devote a great deal of space to Dr. Feinbloom and his contact lenses, and wonderful too! But why the remark: "They are inconspicuous for actors and other vain persons...