Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless the University is willing to "spend more money, and spend it in time" the married veterans who are now without rooms will remain homeless for the fall term. This is the claim of Edwin M. Davidson '45 1G and Russell I. Hare '44 in the April issue of the Student Progressive, Liberal Union publication...
...with her silver-haired maestro (a man old enough to be her father), chose to suggest that her mother work for a living, and told the press what she was doing with her mother's former allowance of $21,000 a year. She was giving it to blind, homeless, needy children, "because I had an unhappy childhood." Cried Mrs. Vanderbilt: "Disgraceful...
...Hapless, homeless little Nazis found a friendly light in an unexpected window last week. The Communist Party invited them to come in out of the cold...
Eighteen years later, when Switzerland had been invaded by the French, and hundreds of half-starved, ignorant, homeless children roamed the country, Pestalozzi gathered together as many as he could, and started an orphan school in Stans. "We wept and smiled together," he wrote. "They forgot the world . . . and only knew they were with me and I with them. ... I sought less to teach [them] to spell, read and write than to make use of these exercises for the purpose of giving their minds as full and as varied a development as possible." In the end he succeeded. Talleyrand...
...Homeless veterans got a mite of help last week in their house hunting. The Civilian Production Administration slapped a priorities system on building materials, to start Jan. 15. In 1946 it hopes to funnel them into some 400,000 new homes for veterans costing $10,000 and less...