Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politics, like the poor, are always with us. But now that the fate of the Supreme Court seems to rest in the hands of Senator Ashurst's tight little judiciary committee, and the noise of battle has died down while the proponents of the abortive plan try to drive some sort of a compromise with the President in order to get the measure through at all, the most significant political news of the week comes not from the legislative halls of Washington, but rather from the back rooms of local Republican clubs in New York City. For the Republicans...
...Rodríguez, raised by Pope Pius XI from bishop coadjutor of the provincial diocese of Morelia to be Catholic primate of Mexico (TIME, April 5). Within the Cathedral were hundreds of clergy, wearing habits and vestments rarely permitted them in public during recent years, and thousands of poor, pious Mexicans, mostly Indians and mestizos...
Nearly blind and dirt-poor, Inventor Dave Mallory (Karloff) devises a burglar alarm worked by electric eyes. He goes to sell it to Steve Ranger (Samuel Hinds), prosperous president of the Ranger System of burglar alarms, which uses wires. In his youth Dave Mallory invented that system too, but Ranger stole it. This time Ranger again succeeds in tricking Mallory, who stamps out snarling: "What I create I can destroy." With, a pocket radio set which will void the old Ranger alarm system, he sets about bringing Ranger to terms...
Pietro, hero of the story, is a young journalist who intends to get on in the world. Already he has raised himself into good society from very poor beginnings; and now he is engaged to Sofia, who is far from pretty but has a title. Pietro thinks of himself as the most honest and well-meaning of men, a kind of Roman Buchmanite. When his fiancée's brother, Matteo, quarrels with his wife, Maria Luisa, because she has discovered that Matteo is keeping a mistress, Pietro pants to help out. Maria Luisa has left her husband temporarily...
...eight race dinghy series held Saturday and Sunday on the Charles, the University sailors placed second in a field of eight colleges. M.I.T. topped the field with 93.5 points, 8.5 points ahead of the Crimson. Ralph Lawson, Jr. '38, George R. Poor '37, James A. Rousmaniere '40, and Harry G. Thorndike '38 raced on the University team...