Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Companions in Distress. What, through all this, was happening to the opposition? As early as Monday, Candidate Robert Taft had phoned Jim Duff-who was trying to hold the fort for Arthur Vandenberg-and invited him to a conference. They met at the Drake Hotel, in the penthouse apartment of John D. M. Hamilton, who was national chairman of the G.O.P. when Alf Landon was its candidate...
...that the Dewey camp was spreading stories so fast that by the time one was checked another had cropped up. Delegates were being stampeded. They compared notes. Taft's and Stassen's figures on the estimated strength of each were amazingly similar. Taft and Stassen, companions in distress, began to warm toward each other. But there was no talk of agreeing on a coalition candidate. They were merely appraising their positions. They decided to meet again...
Communist Labor Boss Giuseppe di Vittorio publicly admitted his distress that Italian Reds had been obliged to attack the Marshall Plan. He said he would ask the Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions to let workers in each country decide for themselves what stand to take on U.S. aid. "When someone wants to help you," he said, "it is ridiculous to slap him in the face...
...Société has been more direct. It sent out a cry of distress to shrewd, dapper René de Léon, who headed the company for 14 successful years (1922-36), is now a Hollywood hotelman (The Garden of Allah). Said he: "They asked me if I could find people here who would want to put money in to buy shares. They hoped I would return at the head of a wagonload of American gold. [The manager] came to me and said, 'Tiens! My friend, give me the best juice of your brains...
...letter transmitted by American military authorities and received here by E. F. Bruck, professor of Rector Wolfgang Kunkel writes that outside assistance can help avoid "distress and embitterment" and "dispair of the world and democratic ideals of which they are being told so much...