Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crossing the ocean into European affairs, Henry V. Poor '36 has written an article entitled "The Impotence of the League of Nations in the Itale-Abyssinian Crisis" discussing Mussolini's latest bomb-shell to peace...
...Parisian institution that lends its name to the production receives only a minimum of attention, which is just as well, since the poor 'Folies" as interpreted by cosmopolitan Hollywood seem to have taken on the Busby Berkeley tradition, all of which we greet with cautious skepticism and even displeasure. Although a prepossessing list of new songs are advertised, none of them seem very promising. It is the mistaken identify with which the film stands or falls, and as far as we are concerned we like this sort of thing...
...Conservatives. Last week Perfect Administrator Morrison, having run through his nest egg, made London householders wince by taking steps to raise their rates (taxes) to the extortionate percentage of seven shillings in the pound (31%). Said "Next Prime Minister"* Morrison: "The money has gone in treating all the poor of London more humanely, providing more homes for the aged poor, and more free education, and modernizing hospitals, improving their dietary and increasing their staffs...
...rnberg] illustrates the best and the worst features of Nazi local government. Nowhere else has the winter relief campaign been carried on with livelier zeal. The poor are well taken care of, order has replaced former disorder, and the restoration of historic buildings and civil beautification are proceeding on all sides. Unemployment has been reduced from 70,000 to 25,000 in two years, notwithstanding that the chief manufactures-toys, lead pencils, brushes and Diesel engines- largely depend on an export market that is now near the vanishing point...
...cross between that of the late Harry Greb and an indignant Chinese laundry man. Son of a day laborer named Tony D'Ambrosio, he is a product of the curious "bootleg" boxing circuit that flourished a few years ago in upstate New York, where promoters were too poor or too dishonest to pay taxes...