Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...romantic Mexico, maybe after reading this article you will not be so proud of that PIECE OF SILVER. The silver in that sombrero is BLOOD MONEY because it was acquired by Aaron Saenz and by Calles . . . with the price of bread taken from the mouths of thousands of poor Mexican families...
...heavy ulster and uprighteously faced, besides the elements, the bitter accusations of his neighbors at small Beulah, Mich. Those neighbors never did approve the resort for unmarried mothers and baby bastards which this retired Congregational clergyman operated at Beulah. They suspected that Brooks let poor babies die or even had them killed, that he buried them in the dune sand among the second growth birches of his 80-acre place where brambles and goat tracks quickly erased all trace of the graves...
Died, Thomas Alexander Boyd, 36, author (Through the Wheat, Mad Anthony Wayne, Lighthorse Harry Lee); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Ridgefield, Conn. He left two posthumous works, In Time of Peace (sequel to Through the Wheat) and Poor John Fitch, Inventor of the Steamboat...
...delegation of newshawks looking for an office door on which was freshly stenciled the name "C. E. Mitchell, Inc." Admitted by a solitary office boy, the reporters found Charles Edwin Mitchell seated behind a small desk, nervously puffing cigarets. In his own words the bankless banker was a "poor fellow going back into business...
...minute, three-a-day personal appearances at a Hollywood theatre. Occasion : The showing of the cinema Our Daily Bread (TIME, Oct. 8) on which he collaborated slightly with Director King Vidor. Purpose: To chip about $2,000 off the debts incurred in his campaign for Governor. He proved a poor attraction...