Word: neediest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest--and, perhaps correspondingly, wealthiest and most illustrious--university has, for the past two years, been quietly resolving the greatest paradox in its 311-year history. By Commencement next month, a special investigating commission will recommend to the Corporation a revitalizing treatment for one of the University's neediest members, the Divinity School...
...Julius Howland Barnes is 69 now, and long since retired from the grain business in which he was once the biggest U.S. exporter. But last week he came back > into the news again with a plan for improving labor relations by giving first call on jobs to the neediest workmen—and paying them the union scale of $51 for a 60-hour shipyard week—even if they had never before earned half that much. To prove his theory, he had made a place in his shipyards for 169 men who were almost down & out, and he was well pleased with...
...only dictated sales prices but sometimes charged as much as 30% interest on loans. Sweeping out of the jungle in organized forays, Mate Cosido* and his well-armed men have staged at least seven big holdups, netting over 90,000 pesos ($21,420). He distributes the loot among the neediest farmers and pickers, thereby assuring himself concealment...