Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catalonia's financial condition admittedly is poor, although officials insist it is 'only temporary...
Every Mexican President since 1910 has claimed that he was taking land from the rich and "returning" it to the poor. But last week President Cardenas accurately claimed that he has split up more land than all the Presidents of the past 15 years. Some 24,000,000 acres have been divided among Indian, mestizo farmers by President Cardenas since 1934 while only 20,000,000 acres were distributed in the 15 years preceding...
Only one of the Pembertons, Toni (Ann Sothern), was half sane. She helped poor Henry MacMorrow (Jack . Haley), the lawyer who was trying to get her family's signatures to documents enabling him to sell a piece of land they owned. Uncle Goliath (Maurice Cass) was the hardest one to persuade. To prove that civilization was a failure, he was living, dressed in bearskins, in a cave adjacent to his 40-room house. By the time Goliath signed the power of attorney on a piece of hide, Toni and Henry were in love. Toni knew that her family would...
...plants, all climates, all conditions: and that even if they made a great variety of formulae there are other factors such as temperature and acid-alkali balance which must be thoroughly studied for successful hydroponics. Also, in his kindly if eccentric way,, he accuses them of victimizing "poor people" by selling chemicals worth a few cents at fancy prices ranging from...
...camp meetings, Chain gangs, political rallies; of a huge-columned mansion porch, with a poor-white woman and her child sitting on one of the broad stone steps. "I don't know what ever happened to the family that built this house before the War. A lot of families live here now. My husband and me moved in and get two rooms for five dollars a month...