Word: affording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Junk Peddlers' Union, with 150 members who would like to join C. I. O. but say they cannot afford the dues, donated $50 to the Chicago strike, prepared to demand that the city keep children and organized charities from cutting in on their business. Said Harry Morgenstein, the union's business agent: "If the country doesn't want the families of about 300 junk collectors on relief, something will have to be done to stop this unfair competition from organizations like the Salvation Army...
Seven Fellowships from this fund, each carrying a large stipend, are available this year, and December 15 is the closing date for applications. An unmarried undergraduate desirous of sugaring a sound American education with the cultured icing of a year in England cannot afford to let slide this opportunity through neglect or indifference...
...these two groups there is no other course that will take the place of Music 1. And yet the University turns a deaf car to requests for better equipment and more section men. Last year Dr. Davison was informed that since the University could not afford such expenses, Music 1 would have to be limited to 125 students. This decision which would have checked the progress of the whole department and turned away distributors and concentrators alike, was too preposterous to be followed. So two hundred students are allowed to enroll this year, while about a hundred are forced...
...Hitler's confidential agent. Kurt Ludecke managed the first meeting between Hitler and Mussolini, headed the first Nazi propaganda missions abroad, the Nazi press bureau in Washington, and in I Knew Hitler now recalls the late and living Nazi leaders from the days when they could barely afford paste for posters. Into his 814-page confessions Author Ludecke dumps an amazing store of uncloseted skeletons and dirty Nazi linen. He writes in English, easily, with no accent, frequent wit. His story is the most amende and grimly absorbing Nazi confession that has yet appeared in English...
...children are by no means to blame for their behaviour. They are of large families, attend large schools, and so receive little guidance from the people to whom God and the State have entrusted them. Their families are often barely able to make ends meets and so can afford none of the little extras which keep more fortunate children happy and content. In the majority of cases their mothers have jobs--sometimes as waitresses in the University Dining Halls--and the children are left completely on their own for a large part...