Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waters of the Yangtze reached a new high level-52 ft, 9 in. Villages were swept away. Yellow waters spread out to cover 12%, of the arable land in the valley. A stark report came from the stricken district to Nanking: THE AUTUMN CROP IS RUINED. 23 MILLIONS ARE HOMELESS...
...swirling, dirty flood, fire broke out. There was no way to fight it. A few brave watermen pushed their little sampans from house to house trying to rescue trapped families, but scores died. There was danger of pestilence. Foreign correspondents were less interested in the millions of homeless and thousands of dead than in two U. S. citizens, Mrs. Webb and a Mrs. Fielding, who were attacked by a mob of hysterical coolies in Hankow's former German concession, had their dresses torn off, were badly frightened...
...conference yesterday between Mayor James M. Curley and E. A. McLaughlin, Jr., president of the Boston College Alumni Association, with regard to the B. C. H. C. football game scheduled for November 28 at Fenway Park, and the Stanford-Dartmouth game, homeless because of the Mayor's refusal to permit the contest to be staged in the Harvard Stadium, left the situation unchanged. McLaughlin last night expressed himself hopeful that events would be arranged to the satisfaction of all, but would make no further statement...
...statute books, but officials and citizens instinctively realized last week that U. S. responsibility in a Nicaraguan disaster is precisely like that of Great Britain in an Egyptian disaster. Immediately after the 'quake, all available planes of Pan American Airways were placed at the disposal, not of homeless President Jose Maria Moncada, sleeping in a tent last week with his new Presidential Palace a mess of pink stucco on the side of La Loma. an extinct volcano, but of U. S. Acting Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke...
...have before me a recent issue of a New-York newspaper. Its first three pages are largely devoted to signals of distress. More than a dozen headlines call attention to "business depression." "jobless," "the homeless...