Word: pauperized
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...unless school funds match increasing enrollments, the U.S. will be a pauper in the midst of plenty. So declared the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, in a sobering 62-page forecast on school finance issued last week...
Abolish the Paupers. Elder Statesman Alcide de Gasperi talked the new line: "We must transform our party into an instrument fit for the times.'' Of Italy's 11.5 million families, he said, 1,375,000 could be called "paupers," 1,345,000 more are underprivileged, and only 1,274,000 have a "high standard of living." De Gasperi summed up: "Our notion of social justice is to raise the poorer classes to a higher standard of living, to narrow the difference between all classes, and, above all, to abolish the pauper class." It was the voting, however...
...midst of the nation's greatest boom, one major U.S. industry is gravely ill. Coal, once prince of U.S. power, has become a pauper. In the past 30 years, its work force has shrunk from 884,000 to 400,000. One-third of the remaining force is out of work or has gone into other jobs. During the past year more than 130 mines closed down, and in six years annual production of coal has dropped from 630.6 million tons to an estimated 440 million tons this year-less than was produced...
...first, the Department of Agriculture tried getting the ranchers to sign a statement that they could not afford to buy feed at the prevailing price (in the case of cottonseed meal, $66 a ton). But Texas cattlemen refused to put their names to any "pauper's oath." Two days later the ruling was "clarified" so that local relief committees were given broad license to decide who could pay and who could not. The allotments of feed were put on a per-cow basis, with little attention paid to ability to pay. Said Lubbock County Agent D. W. Sherrill...
Only three years after he died insane and almost a pauper, the body of the great Russian Dancer Vaslav Nijislcy was quietly exhumed from an unmarked grave in London's Marylebone Cemetery to be reburied beside other artists in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. The transfer was a tribute paid by Nijinsky's famous pupil, Dancer Serge Lifar...