Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Father Coughlin's investments in silver on behalf of his Radio League of the Little Flower while he was preaching remonetization, the General stormed: "When a priest vowed to poverty and preaching to the poor flays the faith of a people to advance a monetary interest- his own or another-you can about conclude that Judas Iscariot was just a poor piker...
...Approached by Jewish contributors to his campaign fund who aspired to be made diplomats, President Roosevelt neatly disposed of several by offering them the Berlin Embassy, later discovered that no rich U. S. citizen would take it, finally had to appeal to the self-sacrificing patriotism of a poor pedagog, Ambassador Professor Dodd to whom Berlin is today an interesting purgatory (TIME, June...
...Ajaccio and Sopigna his personal property, collected tribute from all travelers for years. He avenged himself on a young man who ran away with his mistress by murdering the boy's uncle and a cousin. On the grounds that he robbed the rich, Spada was popular with the poor. Ambitious young Corsicans without a trade rallied to him. After a visit to Corsica, Singer Mary Garden "loved him so much I named my dog after...
...will give Nicholas Murray Butler's "The Isolated Life"; Robert Dunn '37, giving "A Song of Unending Sorrow," translated from the Chinese by Witter Bynner; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, who will give an excerpt from Maurice Baring's "Essay on Poetry and Moods of the Public"; Henry V. Poor '36, who will give "The Hound of Heaven," by Francis Thompson; Shepherd Robinson '36, who will give excerpts from James Bryant Conant's 1934 Baccalaureate Sermon; Robert A. Robinson '35, who will give excerpts from Charles Evans Hughes' "Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his Ninetieth Birthday"; A. Gilman Sullivan...
Next, our criminal would counterfeit billions of dollars of United States money and distribute it haphazardly among the poor. This inflation would not scare business men, but give them profits. The poor at the same time leave us. Employment would increase. Recovery would have arrived...