Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barbados it is 1,000 to the square mile.) In one decade the population has increased 18%,. The result is that Porto Rico's resources, natural and economic, are exhausted. Birth Control, seriously agitated in the insular government, is blocked by the dominant Roman Catholic Church. Poverty and hunger are on all sides. A laborer is lucky to make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take a heavy toll. The hurricane of 1928 (called "San Filipe" by the natives) struck the island a $100,000,000 blow from which it is still staggering. The 1929 sugar price slump...
...Twelve Moslems were killed by Hindus in the Mochi district last week "for insulting a Hindu sacred cow," and Hindu-Moslem feeling began to run so high that St. Gandhi threatened to go on "hunger strike" until both communities calmed down...
...President Hoover were those in the arch-Democratic New York World. Reason: Besides being close friends and mutual admirers, Herbert Hoover and Walter Lippmann have in common a passion for fairness which each respects. Also in common are their sense of bewilderment at the complexities of national life, their hunger for facts...
...court Suffraget Richardson announced the whole affair was a protest against the incarceration of Chief Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst, at the time on a hunger strike in Holloway Jail...
Blessed are they who hunger in the land of Drought, for they shall be told that a great Government feeds the starving in foreign lands...