Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From poor beginnings, with only a grammar school training, Banker Mount worked himself up in 15 years to a president-&-cashier's job in the Oakland Bank. There Banker Giannini discovered him in 1921, plucking him out to make him head of the Oakland branch of Bank of Italy (now Bank of America, N. T. & S. A.), the Giannini bank. Impressed by this hardheaded, hard-working young man, Banker Giannini later took him to his head office in San Francisco, shortly made him big Bank of Italy's president...
Update Vermont: Best conditions in New England around Rutland. Rest of territory, pretty poor. Hesitate before leaving. Make sure there's something...
...written for Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, and Mickey Rooney, or whether it was discovered as a suitable vehicle for its child stars. At any rate, it is not a first class production, mostly because the theme has been treated more than once. Essentially it is rich boy versus poor boys, but give the rich boy an English accent and an English father-architect struggling for a living while his well-to-do wife cavorts in Florida, and you have a slightly different situation. Both the devil and the sissy are the pert, Fauntleroy-like Freddie Bartholomew, who distinguishes himself above...
...Crimson was greatly hindered by poor lighting and a small floor...
Bill Schmidt was nosed out in the finals of the high hurdles by Mason Fernald "40. The Freshman relay team also came home a winner partly because of poor baton passing on the part of the Varsity...