Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchuria great things were about to happen this week. Squads of police had searched every house in Changchung and confiscated 3,000 rifles and 150,000 rounds of ammunition. Carloads of grain arrived to be distributed to 30,000 poor families while arrangements were made to house 4,000 homeless free. A guard of 5,000 troops was set round the still incomplete Imperial City. In an open courtyard a few handpicked correspondents saw court dignitaries in dragon gowns and fur hats with jeweled buttons bow low to the ground before a stuffed dummy on a lacquered and jeweled ebony...
...great eyewitness reporter, Duranty nevertheless has his purple passages. Thus he describes Moscow's homeless children (1925) : "For the past three years one of their chief strongholds has been the 'Catacombs,' as Moscow calls an acre-wide range of cellars under an enormous unfinished pre-War building right in the center of the city. The jungle life of these catacombs demanded such a toll of blood, so many corpses were thrown naked upon the outer snow, that the authorities have put a high wooden fence around the entire area and plan next year to raze this whole...
...expert in the U. S."; for TIME'S own eminent consultant pronounces that Irish whiskies, being heavier, are less delicate. Question of taste.-ED. Danner Christmas Sirs: . . . Nowhere is the true spirit of Christmas more clearly shown than among the 3,000,000 lepers of the world-sick, homeless, many of them blind, and crippled as well. At 170 lonely leper outposts around this old world there are men and women and little children asking ''Will there be any Christmas this year?" Not the kind of Christmas that means extra comforts and luxuries; but just the supplying...
...Europe, arrived in Paterson after Peter Christopolus reached Omaha. He tried to get in touch with the Strengs, was unsuccessful. Said he last week: "It is regrettable that Mr. Strengs in his statements, defaming the character of the boy, did not take into consideration that he was attacking a homeless and orphaned lad, who does not have the opportunity to fight his own battle. I am perturbed ... as to what effect this whole thing will have in deterring other parents from adopting homeless boys from institutions...
While the Yellow River subsided slowly last week, leaving more than 3,000,000 Chinese homeless, 18 country magistrates in Western Shantung Province sent a remarkable petition to the Nanking Government...