Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...
...Bolsheviks that the American Flag Association, impressed by Mrs. Davies' vigor in helping its drive against U. S. crime, asked Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to perform the act of dubbing her "The Lady of the Flag." Nor do the Russians care that Ambassador Davies was born so poor he had to help pay his way through the University of Wisconsin Law School by working as a physical instructor. The Bolsheviks seemed to like Ambassador & Mrs. Davies simply for their frank and friendly Capitalism-impressive to Russians who are always taken by "sincerity," their favorite virtue...
...good rubber-tired buggy with fancy paint costs $125. Buggymen sell to foreign government officials, who usually like them gaudy; to places like Bermuda and Mackinac where automobiles are prohibited; and to parts of the U. S. where roads are bad and people poor. Standard's president E. J. Knapp likes to tell of a sale in the South where a three-year-old Ford brought $12, a 30-year-old buggy...
Thus the President offers the poor blind public only the elephant's car, hoping it won't be able to guess from that, the kind of breast that confronts it. He may be able to finesse his plan through Congress by this means, but he is more likely to end up in the history books as one who preferred the methods of pressure politics to those of unequivocal presentation to the people...
Though the social side makes a strong appeal to the men who engage in House plays, perhaps the spontaneity which enliven the productions is most to be admired. When Lowell presented "The Beggar's Opera" several years ago, the audience was resigned beforehand to a poor attempt at a difficult play. Yet so good were the acting and singing that, in spite of themselves, the spectators laughed with the actors. The excellence of the performance was not due, by any means, to the experience of the players, but to their desire for self-entertainment, which is the essence of these...