Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included on the committee are Robert S. Brainerd '38, chairman of the Peace Society; Thomas H. Quinn '36, president of the Student Council; Bruce Bliven, Jr. '37, president of the Liberal Club; Herschel Berman '38, chairman of the SLID; Henry V. Poor '36, president of the Political Union; and Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, president of the CRIMSON...
...Also, poor watchdog...
Ostensible reason for Mr. Hopson's retirement was poor health. Testifying in Washington, an Associated lobbyist once declared: "I've been told by physicians that if he ever developed a sore throat he would choke to death." However, the fact that this year Mr. Hopson has spent only a month in his Manhattan office is probably traceable to a devout desire to dodge process servers. Among Associated suits now pending are a mail-fraud case and a stockholders' action to recover some $1,000,000 allegedly milked from the system by a Hopson personal holding company...
...Tireman Frank A. Seiberling groused about "a good volume of business but poor profit," blamed "the savagery of competition...
...rewarding passages in Golden Apples are those dealing with Luke and Allie Brinley, children of poor farmers who were left orphans when Luke was 14, Allie 10. Avoided by their neighbors, who felt guilty at deserting them but did not want to be burdened, Luke and Allie tried to farm, then ran off into the wilderness where they took over an abandoned house owned by an English family. Their independence, isolation, and desperate attempt to make the place habitable seem to promise that Golden Apples is to develop into one of those honest fantasies of man's barehanded struggle...