Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composer- Alexander Porfirievitch Borodin. Soviets approve Borodin's music as vigorous, direct, heroic, with a true Russian flavor unblemished by oldtime Russian melancholy. Alexander Porfirievitch was a sane and optimistic artist. As the bastard son of a Prince of Imeretia he never had to worry for his livelihood. His father received a life-long pension after the Empire annexed his little kingdom in 1810. As a boy Alexander Porfirievitch played expertly on the piano, the cello, the flute. But he also showed a talent for medicine which his family regarded as a more respectable profession. He served two years...
Until the schools adopt truly educational programs, the hue and cry about reduced budgets, etc., is not really important. I say this in spite of the fact that my livelihood depends on those same budgets and I have felt the influence of the most extreme demand for economy...
...aside 2.2 for PWA projects. Not more than 251,000 men had been given work directly. As Great Britain could testify, the straight dole had proved less expensive, more effective. With $400,000,000 from PWA funds, 4,000,000 jobless had received CWA chores and a livelihood for three and a half months. Even the CCC provided a better employment buy than PWA. With $323,000,000 from PWA, CCC had kept 300,000 young men busy in the woods since last summer...
...Schiffs on what was then known as Jew Street was the ancestral home of the Rothschilds (see p. 20). The Frankfort air was heavy with money. When Jacob Henry Schiff arrived in Manhattan the year the Civil War ended he instinctively turned to brokerage and banking for a livelihood. George Fisher Baker got his inspiration from his Uncle John who spent his time lolling on a piazza. Uncle John, it seemed, lived on "interest money." And George F. Baker became the richest, most powerful and most taciturn commercial banker in U. S. history. No other large financial institution...
...point out that the test is whether the regulation by a State is unreasonable or arbitrary and the order in question "appears not unreasonable or arbitrary or without relation to the purpose to prevent ruthless competition from destroying the wholesale price structure on which the farmer depends for his livelihood and the community for an assured supply of milk...