Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They all, even the most dangerously ill, had been on hunger strike for 32 hours against the Christ Child Hospital's newfangled policy of feeding patients exclusively on "vitamin-rich foods...
...until agitated doctors certified that several hunger-striking patients were on the verge of Death, did the Christ Child's director yield. Hereafter the stubborn Polish patients will eat their accustomed bread, soup and potatoes (with occasional meat), four times a day in copious servings...
...Albany, N. Y. five truckloads of "hunger marchers" trying to enter the city over the Hudson River bridge got into an altercation with police, were thoroughly beaten...
Such disturbances were commonly accepted as harbingers of winter. In both cases radical leaders were quick to capitalize on hunger and cold. Yet the Administration in Washington refused to be hustled into any determination of its relief plans to combat this form of discontent. Administrator Hopkins went out of his way to poke fun at Republican Ogden Mills who had declared in a campaign speech that there would be 20,000,000 people on relief by January...
...mind of the House of Bishops, this document was written and read by Washington's Bishop Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman. Ranging over a number of social and economic matters, the Pastoral found in the world all manner of unholy ills: "greed . . . indecency . . . degeneracy . . . corruption . . . selfishness . . . unrest . . . hunger . . . despair . . . civil strife . . . indulgence . . . vulgarity . . . ambition . . . infamy . . . hatred . . . suspicion . . . disillusionment . . . privation . . . wickedness . . . misfortune . . . folly." But Bishop Freeman waxed most indignant in contemplating that institution which most plagues his Church-divorce. Tolerant as it has been in some respects, the Episcopal Church has never temporized in its battles against divorce...