Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vicar was a popular man in Lambeth. A specialist in charity, he supplied needy parishioners with loans and groceries, took 1,500 slum children to the seaside every summer, opened two night shelters for homeless unfortunates. For them it was a pity when Crime Accountant Joseph Cook nabbed him on a wretchedly small irregularity of ?7, found his piteous appeals had netted the spanking sum of about ?150,000 in his 17 letter-writing years. Last week the hoary old rascal went to jail...
...event of a bombing raid on Boston or Cambridge the Red Cross regulars would be so busy caring for the wounded and homeless that they would have to employ volunteer telephone operators at their switchboards. It will be necessary to begin training a corps of skilled men for this job immediately...
Fire, flood and boom all swept Alaska last week. The fire swept through Seward, southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The blaze started in the Second Chance Barber Shop, raged for eight hours, destroyed half the town (pop. 949). Army officers set up emergency kitchens, found shelter for the homeless. In the rest of Alaska, men were fighting not fire but water...
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed...
...Harvard Dramatic Club, homeless since the Grant Study took over its quarters at 13 Holyoke St. three years ago, is constructing a clubhouse in the rear part of the original building, which was once the Big Tree swimming pool...