Word: earns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrible need Austrian universities. Situation Vienna students particularly catastrophic. . . . Committee of wronged students who during Hitler ear excluded from university for racial reasons and active participation resistance movement. This Komitee Der Geschaedigten Studenten has 1,500 members certified victims of Nazism. . . . These students now lacking resources are forced to earn livelihood on the side irrespective of extreme malnutrition and illnesses contracted during long confinement camps. . . . Many valuable students lacking physical strength to continue face giving up studies. Anticipated Harvard action first ray of hope...
Conclusion. Why should a man who has money, whether he produced it or whether his father produced it, be penalized in favor of a man who has not got money? Do people who earn money have a duty toward those who won't? If so, why? No good reason has ever been advanced, except in double talk by the parasites who won't earn money. Such are the theorems that are destroying production in this country. The idea that the producers must be soaked to support the non-producers was not the idea that built this country...
John J. Cavanaugh, an ambitious lad of 18, first talked the chauffeur into introducing him to Notre Dame's president. Then he talked the president, the Rev. John W. Cavanaugh (no relation), into giving him a job as his secretary so he could earn his way through college. Last week at 47, "young John"-now the Rev. John himself-became Notre Dame's 14th president...
...ally, banker and protector, now owed them ?80,000.000. Spain, their old rival, was in the United Nations' doghouse, while Salazar, in spite of his anti-democratic sympathies, had pursued throughout World War II a serpentine policy whose final tack was enough in the Allies' direction to earn their tolerance, if not their approval. The Portuguese national budget, thanks to Salazar, was always balanced these days. (It had shown a deficit in 68 of the 70 years before 1928.) Portugal's exports were much higher than before the war; her merchant marine was about to double...
Rookie. At Fort Belvoir, Va., Private George Geographos, a basic trainee, refused to accept his paycheck, insisted he had done nothing to earn...