Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when poor people walked, one Jacob Sechler Coxey?now the respectable Republican Mayor of Massillon, Ohio? marched a ragged army of 100 men from his hometown to Washington to get the Government to do something about hard times. Last month when Congress opened, 1,600 Red "hunger marchers" arrived at the Capital in trucks, tried to muscle their way into the Senate chamber and, failing, traipsed off yelling the "International" (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week another, far larger "army" invaded Washington. No handful of disgruntled partisans were they, but more than 10,000 orderly men who differed from the silent...
...behind the Liberty bonds. . . . They will pull out the hoarded money in sugar bowls, between the mattresses and in safe deposit boxes. . . . If it is all right to put the credit of the Government behind business, let the credit of the Government be used to keep the wolf of hunger from the doormat of millions of people...
Gaunt mothers with hunger-pinched babies, hollow-eyed youths, twitching old men, shamefaced Frauleins big with child -in all 1,000 utterly miserable people sat down in Vienna last week to the Third Annual Banquet of the Advisory Centre For Intending Suicides. Anyone consulting the Advisory Centre is promised and may depend upon: 1) "absolute secrecy" (not even the police will be told); 2) "absolute non-interference with the final decision" (no prospective suicide will be nagged, browbeaten or cajoled into remaining alive). During the hearty banquet last week leading Viennese stage folk (not all of them comedians) did their...
...payed to them anyway. The police force is still retained at full pay, but rumor has it that they may well be disbanded. There is not much left to steal. The crooks are gradually being driven from the city by starvation. Occasionally children in the grade schools faint from hunger...
...Physiology will be the next Harvard speaker, lecturing on "The Effects of Strong Emotion." In this talk, scheduled for January 23, he will outline some of the famous experiments performed in his laboratory at the medical school on the reactions of the animal functions of the human body to hunger, fear, rage, and pain, a subject on which he has written many works...