Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later the sun shone peaceful and bright on a ruined city. The hurricane, tearing inland across the island broke its force against the rugged mountains separating Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic from French-speaking Haiti. In Santo Domingo city 1,500 were killed, 5,000 were injured, 30,000 homeless and destitute. Dapper General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo who has only been president of the Dominican Republic 19 days found the presidential palace crashing about his ears. Almost before the wind stopped whistling he was in the streets directing army and police relief operations. To Washington he sent a pathetic message...
Meantime, effective local measures were taken toward reconstruction. Straying cattle were rounded up to await their owners, residents of the vicinities most damaged were assured that there would be a postponement of tax collections. In some neighborhoods moratoriums were declared on private obligations. Orphans and the aged homeless were packed off to urban asylums...
...Solomon's Temple, and in outlying communities (TIME, Aug. 26 et seq ). An explanation of the Arab discontent appeared last week, by Hadji Aminal Husseini, Grand Mufti and President of the Supreme Moslem Council, chief religious and temporal leader of Palestine Arabs Jews buy land, leaving Arabs homeless. Abnormal Jewish immigration forces Arabs out of work. (Great Britain recently stopped such immigration.) Arabs have no share in the government. Taxes have become unbearable. Jews have caused financial depression. Jews have no rights, only tolerance, at the Wailing Wall -it is an integral part of Al Bouraq el Shareef (built...
Pictures and comment in the Parisian journals made the homeless waifs the idols of the warm-hearted French. Some enterprising merchant fashioned a Siamese-twin-like yarn doll representing a boy and a girl which was immediately seized upon by the Poilu as a good luck fetish to be worn around the neck. Soon everyone wore them in every Allied army...
...niece, and Son-in-law Joseph Schoengold, actor, singer, director, owner of Yiddish theatres in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Chicago. Because there was no part for her in The Wild Man, the Eagle's brood arranged to have their mother (Sarah Adler) perform, a scene from Gordin's Homeless as an afterpiece. The presentation, they said, was in accordance with their father's wish and this is the first opportunity to forgather since his death five years ago. After a U. S. tour they plan to open the season next autumn with a new play-possibly on Broadway, possibly...