Word: myer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite Massachusetts, which more than any other state allows its hungry poor to starve, Myer says, "We could wipe out hunger in the United States within a year if we tried. Last year we spent $1.5 billion on our food programs and over $5 billion on our farm price support programs. We have the resources and are capable of the task. It is not a question of whether we can wipe out hunger, but when, or if we want to . . . In Massachusetts no one cares. Maurice Donabue, the one man who supported action, no longer holds a state office. "Biggest...
...JOHN D. MYER Columbus...
Whites and blacks live side by side as uneasy neighbors. Myer Finkel, treasurer of Dorchester's Blue Hill Credit Union, complains: "These black kids have no respect. At one time I used to be this great liberal. I've been screwed by a few blacks, but I figured it was the course of business. Now I've become very hardened." At the G & G Delicatessen in Dorchester, once the social center for 50,000 Jewish Bostonians and now little more than a gathering place for old men who sip coffee, Julius Kolodny says bitterly: "Black and white...