Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything in its direct path but by its centrifugal force leaves a low pressure area in which air-filled buildings literally explode. Most serious that the valley has suffered in years, last week's tornadoes, according to Red Cross estimates, killed 20 people, injured 188, left 2,000 homeless, and were characteristically freakish...
...appalling days, Los Angeles had had the worst flood in its history, the most drastic outbreak of geographical temperament since the earthquake. Total property damage covering 30,000 square miles was guessed at $50,000,000 compared to the earthquake's $45,000,000. Twenty thousand people were homeless. And in its sudden rage the flood had taken probably 200 lives-ten in the collapse of a pedestrian bridge across the Los Angeles River...
...collected from 24 countries by an international committee including Albert Einstein, Emil Ludwig, Stefan Zweig, Ignazio Silone. Mme Schwimmer fled her native Hungary in 1920 after political upheavals which ousted her from the national cabinet, was denied U. S. citizenship by the Supreme Court in 1929. A tireless, homeless agitator, she has been freely circularized by her enemies as "German spy, Bolshevik agent and swindler of Henry Ford," by her friends as "the world's most powerful woman." Last week in Manhattan, after acknowledging her award with a speech proposing a World Federation of Nations, she lamented that...
...clock--The secretaries find themselves touched by the animals' plight. After consultation, they erect a shelter of two umbrellas on the top step to cover the homeless canines, who grin in gratitude...
...debt accumulate. A bondholders' protective committee foreclosed, bought in the property last November for $750,000. The Methodists, their investment lost for good, were invited to move out of the hotel, their quarters to be used for more lucrative operations, including a garage. Temple Church was as homeless and penniless as any evicted tenement family, but it had kind neighbors. Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco's largest synagog, offered the use of its building on Sundays. A small Methodist church offered the Templers a place to worship in between regular services. And San Francisco's most vigorous...