Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King's yearly duty of distributing coppers to the poor on Maundy Thursday at Westminster Abbey, now boarded up in preparation for the Coronation, was discharged last week by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St. Paul's Cathedral, for His Majesty is being spared "fatiguing public appearances." Chicago Tribune's David Darrah and United Press's Dan Rogers broke stories that the Archbishop of Canterbury is slashing the Coronation Service right & left in efforts to get it as short and unfatiguing as possible, has decided to omit the sermon, hopes to telescope the ritual from...
...London 8,000 schoolchildren will be brought and as the grandstands will be uncovered appeals were launched last week for gifts of child-size raincoats to add to His Majesty's Government's revolving store. These number some 500 today, are loaned free to London children too poor to show up on such occasions in the raincoats all schoolchildren in the capital are always asked to wear at Royal functions...
...Pope seemed to be pressing a policy of hopeful moderation which he exhibited last month in appointing a friend of President Lazaro Cardenas, Most Rev. Luis Maria Martinez, to be Archbishop of Mexico, D. F. To Mexican Catholics the Pope's advice was: "Be good to the poor, to workers, to Indians; promote application of the principles of justice and charity; eliminate abuses, at the same time guarding against violent changes which only would cause harm instead of good...
...Regulation of Sports can open up after vacation. Because of the rigors of legal education, the law students, even more than the undergraduates, suffer when their facilities for exercise are inadequate or maladministered. Dr. Bock's observation that many young barristers ailing at Stillman are victims of poor physical training should clarify the need for dealing out a new pack of cards in this regard...
...poor little rich boy, in love with his governess, tries to help untangle her unhappy affairs, only succeeds in getting her fired...