Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free press for imparting news affecting the industry," and asserted that "proper publicity" would "create a more favorable public opinion of the pawnbrokers' business." Pages of news followed about pawnbrokers' ordinances in various cities, including Berlin, where The Pawnbrokers' Journal correspondent wrote: "Pawn shops, the poor man's banks, are soon to feel the Nazi big stick. . . . Their interest rates, often running as high as 30%, are to be trimmed to a flat 6% annual rate. ..." Better news came from Los Angeles, where a correspondent reported that the State Supreme Court of California had ruled that...
Chapter 4- Despite the money Radio put into it, poor pictures, fancy leases and a mammoth funded debt got RKO eventually. The investments in subsidiaries were written down some $8,000,000 and RKO finished 1932 with a loss of $10,600,000. quickly plunged into receivership...
Four men, who swore they had not gotten together previously, told the tale of "the poor damn side-hill gopher animal, whose legs on one side were longer than those on another, and hence he had to walk on the side of a hill...
...picture has enough vitality to throw new life into a lot of matter otherwise dead. Joan Crawford, for example, is the familiar overly-rich heiress who doesn't know what to do with herself and her money, until she meets a poor man. That person in this case is Clark Gable, and he is a reporter, which class doesn't learn his identity until he and she have stolen a airplane, scared about a million people in taking off, crashed the plane, found a spy map in it, dressed up like French peasants, spent a night in Fontaineblean Palace with...
...Boston and Cambridge there are some 25 settlement houses doing work among the poor. Each house has between 1000 and 3000 members. The settlement house is a neighborhood club for the entire family, and conducts activities for all ages...