Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt fired a broadside of facts & figures to confound the "widow-&-orphan" argument. Releasing a special survey made by the Federal Power Commission, he pointed out that the six biggest New York life insurance companies had placed only 9% of their assets in utility securities, that 15 other insurance companies averaged less than 10%, that New York State savings banks averaged less than 3%. Furthermore, the utility bonds of 51 big insurance companies showed an aggregate increase in value since 1929 of $109,000,000. Adding that prime utility operating bonds were now selling at the highest...
...scheme is adopted there should be one important amendment in the interests of another class of citizens also generally held to be pathetic. These are the unfortunate orphans. The term poor orphan is generally held to mean only juvenile orphans, but the Townsend Plan would work a serious injustice to many poor orphans of mature years...
...Anne of Green Gables (RKO) is a dramatization of the Lucy Maud Montgomery novel, published a quarter of a century ago, whose heroine Mark Twain called "the dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." An orphan from the orphanage, Anne Shirley finds herself unwanted when she turns up at the farm of Matthew (0. P. Heggie) and Marilla (Helen Westley), who had expected to adopt a boy. Her ready smile and winning impudence soon earn her the affection of her foster-parents and all goes well until she falls in love with Gilbert...
Male critics cannot be expected to be familiar with the story of "Anne of Green Gables." The movie proves that a person's education has not been seriously injured by this omission. It is the story of a highly imaginative orphan girl, who eventually grows...
...York's Mayor & Mrs. Fiorello Henry LaGuardia formally adopted two children: brunette Jean, 6, niece of the Mayor's first wife, and blond Eric, 4, an orphan...