Word: ill-clad
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Into the swank Savoy Hotel shelter, where guests can dine, dance and sleep, marched 50 ill-clad men & women with two children. Leading the pack was Phil Piratin, famed Hyde Park Communist orator. Two elegant Savoy directors, a constable and a Scotland Yard detective could not make them budge, but the stunt missed fire when the all clear sounded after only 13 minutes...
...week financial men could remind themselves that the Keynes plan has a faint parallel in the U. S. Released were current figures on Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s own public thrift campaign: U. S. Savings Bonds. Voluntary and not for war, the Morgenthau "baby bonds" nevertheless permit the "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" third of the U. S. population to share a nation's deficit financing...
...Franklin Roosevelt laughed as the rain soaked his second inaugural manuscript, said: ". . . The greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America." But his voice rang as he spoke his grim vision of the present: "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...
...Stanford, the University of California, U.C.L.A., and the University of Southern California the name of Harvard is a symbol of smugness. And to Dartmouth--which appears to their Cambridge brothers in study as a formidable part of the one-third of our nation which is "ill-clad, ill-fed, ill-housed"--Harvard represents the high horse of stuffiness...
Franklin Roosevelt's familiar, oft-reiterated assertion that "one-third of a nation [is] ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" has been cited by New Dealers as justification for vast Governmental spending...