Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard had already demonstrated its willingness to aid the suffering and homeless refugees when the Radio Club sent a portable transmitter to Haverhill to relay emergency messages...
...streets was a Franco manifesto packed with high Latin bombast: "The War was won despite the Government and the encyclopedic ineptitude of the army high command, thanks to the heroism and abnegation of the people. . . . The new Government will arrange a just peace with Bolivia, cede to the homeless the lands now owned by the wealthy, colonize the country with Paraguayans instead of undesirable foreigners, grant subsidies to war widows and mutilated veterans...
...grave. They just begin. This place marks not the resting place of Huey P. Long, it marks only the burial ground for his body. His spirit shall never rest as long as hungry bodies cry for food, as long as lean human frames stand naked, as long as homeless wretches haunt this land of plenty." It ended: ''His unlimited talents invariably aroused the jealousies of those inferiors who posed as his equals. He was the Stradivarius, whose notes rose in competition with jealous drums, envious tomtoms. His was the unfinished symphony...
...lumberyard; been a bank-runner, newshawk on a country weekly; hoboed in every State but Idaho. On a hobo trip in 1930 he met "Matt Williams," based his novel on Williams' story. Author Whitcomb has had little to invent: as a hobo and interviewer in agencies for the homeless he has talked to 10,000 unemployed. His literary gods are a queer trinity; Thoreau, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence. At present Author Whitcomb is in St. Paul getting material for his next book...
...written part of her report was confidential, and the oral part was for the ears of Chester Davis alone. The United Press said: "Mrs. Myers, it was understood, uncovered contract violations which caused cruel hardships to part of the farm population. She found share croppers straggling along the highways, homeless and unable to obtain relief...