Word: woe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overworked John R. Steelman, chief of the U. S. Conciliation Service, returned to Washington at week's end, red-eyed and haggard after a trip to Milwaukee. He poured a tale of woe into the ear of his boss, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. What he said was private...
...Words of woe came from the totalitarian front. Although the Italian press buried the news of the bill's passage, it began an anti-U.S. campaign which increased in intensity as the days went by. "Roosevelt's gesture," pontificated Virginio Gayda, "which means open intervention in the war against the Axis, may in the end put into motion the functions of the Tripartite Pact and cause many unpleasant surprises to England and the United States in the Pacific." Echoed La Tribuna: "Soon Japan will say her word...
...painter, gave his annual one-man show. A persistent sapper and gnawer at the roots of capitalism (for years the ace cartoonist of the old Liberator, the newer New Masses), Painter Gropper turns out each year some 50 oils, countless lithographs and drawings of fat capitalists, hungry workers, woe-heeled sharecroppers, bashed and bleeding soldiers. His highly-colored, savagely-drawn pictures have drawn praises and commissions from many a bourgeois. (Art-loving capitalists buy his canvases like hot cakes at $750 up.) Today Leftist Gropper (once an errand boy in a clothing store) lives in a nine-room stone house...
...Symbol--WOE...
...happening in Europe, not to the armies perhaps, but to the people. There will be no exhortations and no pleas to "give till it hurts." This is a time when exhortation and pleas will do little to arouse the public. It is the eloquent facts of Europe's woe which should speak for themselves...