Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want to use a lot of hungry and desperate suckers as demonstration puppets and they are more pleased than not when the poor boobs get all bloodied...
...Poland. With his last breath the blustering old Dictator two years ago placed his benediction on bush-browed Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Army, gave him to the nation as his successor. Lacking the personal magnetism of the Old Marshal, the landscape-painting Marshal makes a poor Dictator. Using Pilsudski's coffin as his chief stock-in-trade, soft-spoken Smigly-Rydz has appealed in vain for all factions to heed the Old Marshal's wish for a unified Poland...
Roosevelt: "My anchor is democracy, and more democracy. . . . I seek no change in the form of American Government. . . . It is of interest to read Macaulay's letter with care-for I find in it no reference to the improving of the living conditions of the poor, to the encouragement of better homes or greater wages, or steadier work...
...Brom frightens poor Ichabod with a pumpkin head and then reveals himself as a qualified pedagog (who is about to open his own school), is revealed as this radically modified classic concludes. Of more point in Bronxville, whose progressive educational system is famous, than on a national network is Brom's final song...
...than in a box. . . ." Sales Manager A. A. Schipke of International Silver Co. besought the stewards to screen their garbage cans and buy genuine silver. "In Massachusetts," said he, "we recovered two tons of silver from restaurant garbage in one month, proving that losses which you blame on the poor public are usually due to careless help...