Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present indications point to an even lower contribution this year with one third of the student body making no donation whatever. Poverty is not to blame for this apathy, for there is scarcely a single undergraduate who cannot afford at least a dollar. And even students who hold themselves aloof from college obligations should remember that they have a duty as citizens and that the Council's appeal is the only plea they will receive from the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and other allied charities rendering such yeoman service in these troubled times...
...believes that a union officer can afford to have a foreign accent but an organizer cannot. Most popular courses, however, are the history of I. L. G. W. U. and the U. S. labor movement, labor problems & the news, public speaking, parliamentary law. Recently the union made a rule that no one may be elected a paid officer unless he has finished a training course...
...paupers, Jehovah's Witnesses could well afford last week to hire wire and wireless telephone facilities from American Telephone & Telegraph Co. for a hook-up between Royal Albert Hall in London and auditoriums in 23 U. S., ten Canadian, ten Australian, four New Zealand cities. In those auditoriums, according to Witnesses' calculations, were gathered 100,000 listeners while, in Albert Hall, Judge Rutherford faced most of England's 5,000 Witnesses and 5,000 outsiders who had come to hear what it was all about...
...Capehart recently returned from a transcontinental tour, with banquets and floor shows in 21 cities to pep up his dealers about Wurlitzer's nickel-in-the-slot music machines. Of his expensive clambake he said: "I can't afford it, but we can't beat those Democrats with firecrackers. . . . The New Deal : . . will fall of its own weight, but we must get in and pitch today and kill it before it kills...
...days a week Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt writes her diary in public. Whom she sees, what she reads, where she goes and what she thinks are all available to anybody who can afford a newspaper. Her column, My Day, appears in 75 U. S. newspapers reaching more than 4,000,000 readers. This overpowering demonstration of neighborliness is also, for the President of the U. S., a priceless political asset...