Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most encouraging is Mr. Poor, who, with "In Defense of Democracy," makes a stirring though somewhat verbose appeal for liberalism against both Fascism and Communism. Mr. De Veaux Smith, with his playlet "Good-Luck," endeavours to meet the challenge of unemployment in a two-room flat on Third Avenue, where Mary Young and her son, Rob, eke out their days, Rob having had no work for thirteen months. To them, bearing a Thanksgiving day basket, comes a woman of wealth who turns out to have been a childhood playmate of Mary Young; Mr. Smith avoids the most obvious inducements...
...that "a social class has status" and that "status consists in class-soliarity and class-feeling," what can you expect from the "class" for which these men in general speak? Where is the solidarity of a group which finds expression in phrases ranging from the impassioned idealism of Mr. Poor, through the mawkish benevolence of Mr. Smith, to the sullen bitterness of Mr. Sweetser, the disgust of Mr. Bach, and the hard-boiled cruelty of Mr. Scott? One might feel that this diversity was simply the fecundity of health if it were not that in every case the atmosphere...
Nominated are Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr., John A. Carley, Robert S. Chafee, Davis S. DeBard, Frank S. Doland, Ashton Emerson, Germaine G. Glidden, A. Sterling MacDonald, Deric Nusbaum, Rodman W. Paul, Lewis Perry, Jr., Henry V. Poor, Edwin H. B. Pratt, John G. Rogers, J. Gordon Scannell, John J. Slocum, Oliver H. Straus, Edwin O. Tilton, and LeMoyno White. Voters will choose five of the candidates, and unsigned ballots will not be counted. Results will be announced on Monday...
...stick out at General Johnson, the Association of Manufacturers suggests that the reform program need be shelved only temporarily. However, it is not difficult to foresee that once reform is dropped, and prosperity returns the program will be entirely forgotten until the next economic collapse. Social legislation is a poor relation which has long been whining at the door of the United States. Following the lead of the more progressive of the European nations, the country might as well admit it into the family circle...
Turning to national fields, Henry V. Poor '36, with the aid of Aristotle, confutes Marx, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, and their ilk, and consummates a 'Defense of Democracy" five pages in length...