Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of the Red Cross during the War, had novel ideas about a public career for his son. He believed that he should go into politics, starting at the bottom and working up, giving generously of himself for the public good, but not depending on his job for a livelihood. His father's will left $4,500,000 as an endowment for Trubee's public career...
...been maintained of letting the bands play not only for the President and every kind of official but for the balls, dinners, amusements, horse shows and every conceivable kind of private entertainment . . . furnishing free music to the very wealthy . . . thus taking from poverty-stricken civilian musicians a means of livelihood...
Health insurance seems to promise adequate medical attention for everybody and adequate livelihood for the physician. Exclaimed Dr. Fishbein, spurting to the end of his long discourse: "People know that death is inevitable. In teaching preventive medicine, we have emphasized that sickness may be prevented. Today we know that some sickness for every family is just as inevitable as death, and unless obstetrics continue to be inevitable there will be no population for the future. Let us, therefore, teach the worker that 2,000,000 people are sick every day in 120,000,000 population, and that this number...
...Mouthpiece (Warner), adapted from an unproduced play by Frank J. Collins, is about a lawyer who had good reason to defend criminals for his livelihood. As assistant district attorney, Vincent Day convicts an innocent man for murder and is unable, when he learns of his mistake, to stop the execution. His methods of atoning for his error are brilliant and unscrupulous. He takes up with a collection of rogues, sees to it that they are not penalized for their crimes. Finally a little Southern secretary (Sidney Fox) makes him ashamed of shabby practice...
...sweep destitution from the face of the city. Startling in its simplicity, the plan was to organize Manhattan's 2,800 city blocks and the 28,421 blocks in the other four boroughs, so that the workers or dwellers in each square would be directly responsible for the livelihood of at least one distressed family, resident in the same block. There are now 20,000 such desperately needy families in New York City. Director of the plan is Wilton Lloyd-Smith, 37, keen, aggressive law partner in the firm of Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon. Wartime field-artilleryman, Director Lloyd...