Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of this same body of men until the fire cooled sufficiently to allow them to be turned over to the undertaker. Perhaps TIME can answer why those bodies showed only slight charring from the waist to the shoulders, although other portions of the bodies were completely burned. We poor guessers think perhaps steel vests were protecting those bodies. Also why tear gas bombs enough to cause an army to shed tears could not drive them out of the house? There were souvenir hunters there the following day picking up cartridges, etc., but we civilized people believe in respecting...
Next November Californians are to vote concerning an extension of the county hospital system, if a petition now being circulated obtains the necessary number of signatures. According to the proposal, any Californian, rich or poor, may enter a county hospital, be charged as little as the county supervisors please...
...hurt me. And I can take care of that before the people of Mississippi. I thought, back in 1925, like a great many other people thought, that I'd done very well in a business way. I always had started from nothing and always had wound up poor as the devil. But I did very well for a time. I think I paid over $12,000 in income taxes in 1925, and possibly $10,000 or $11,000 in 1926. I thought I had made about $450,000 and that I would be pretty well fixed for the rest...
...vibrant voice in the Senate to excoriate Works Progress Administration. Scornfully he cried: "We are told over and over again by the President, Hopkins and Farley that there is no politics in relief. . . . No politics in relief! . . ." On firmer ground than when he read a canned speech about the poor having to eat canned dog-food (TIME, May 11), Senator Dickinson thereupon read into the Congressional Record, without giving any names, a letter written by "a gentleman who holds one of the highest offices in the Federal Government." The letter in full as later ferreted out by the Press...
...Middle Atlantic States' entries were hardest hit by the artists' boycott. Non-boycotters in New York were Gifford Beal, Charles Burchfield, Guy Péne DuBois with his well known Mr. & Mrs. Middle Class, Ernest Lawson, Jonas Lie, Luigi Lucioni, Henry Varnum Poor, John Sloan. Ablest was Eugene Speicher's Nude Back...