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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Objectives: "Among our objectives I place the security of the men, women and children of the nation first. . . . People want decent homes to live in; they want to locate them where they can engage in productive work; and they want some safeguard against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours." Legislative Proposals: i) "There is ample private money for sound housing projects; and the Congress, in a measure now before you, can stimulate the lending of money for the modernization of existing homes and the building of new homes. In pursuing this policy...
Outdoors, other neighbors scrawled a bilingual sign: "Pas de visiteurs, no visitors," and armed themselves with clubs to keep reporters, photographers and other strangers from disturbing the Dionnes. Dr. Dafoe sent the older five Dionne children, two of whom had developed colds, to live with friends. And Papa Ovila Dionne, who forgot to shave, wandered about, weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that...
...sweetheart Lammchen (Margaret Sulla van). Marriage solves one problem and augments the other. Pinneberg's employer has been planning to marry his hireling to his daughter; when he learns his clerk has already taken a wife, he discharges Pinneberg. Lammchen and her husband go to Berlin to live with Pinneberg's hard-boiled mother whose friend Jachman helps the young man get a job selling clothes in a department store. Lammchen is content to cook for Frau Pinneberg's noisy visitors but young Pinneberg feels ashamed when he finds that he is being pensioned by his mother...
...Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served 25, not 20 years, with Laban; supplies Rachel's age at her death (41). He puts in Isaac's dying mouth a babbled prophecy that stretches back to Abraham, forward to Christ. Laban, unlucky until Jacob came to live with him, had sought to propitiate the gods by burying alive his infant son in the foundations of his house. When Joseph is born, Jacob prophesies about him as if he were a Messiah, his mother a virgin-goddess...
...amazed the Vagabond. Why was it that he could not rejoice as others at the greenness of the trees, the mossy crispness of the Yard in the early morning? Perhaps he was tired. Tired because after winter there could be no rest. With spring, he thought, only quiet could live in harmony. And instead there was only haste. Where drowsiness should be he found only excitement...