Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, the Diet was edified by a discourse from ingenious Mr. Koki Hirota. A stone-cutter's son, he once tried to get a job in the household of Captain John Joseph Pershing, then U. .S. military attache in Tokyo, who turned him down because "his English is so poor." Today Koki Hirota is Foreign Minister. "Please tell General Pershing," said he not long ago to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, "that Hirota is still as poor at English as he was 30 years ago." In purring, spitting Japanese last week he told the Diet that Japan defies the English Speaking...
...Uvani," the trance personality, was temperamental. He expressed reluctance, disclaimed any ability of his own. Like the normal Mrs. Garrett's his clairvoyance scores were poor. But his first telepathy scores (for four runs) averaged 11 hits per 25. Then they, too, dropped abruptly to below the chance level, averaging only 4 hits over ten runs...
Softspoken, friendly, unostentatious, L. & N.'s new president has long been known to railroad's rank & file as "Plain Jim." No kin of famed Empire Builder James Jerome Hill, he was born of poor Tennessee mountainfolk, learned railroad telegraphy at 13, won a $100 scholarship to George Peabody College for Teachers at 15 and graduated three years later as a licensed schoolteacher. He abandoned an academic career to take a $15-a-month job as relief station agent in a tiny town called Bon Air. One day he applied for a better job, was asked if he knew...
...banker on the side, he is married, has two children, will get twice as much ($40,500) in his new job as in his old. Negro Cook Humphrey Bowling of "No. 99," the president's private car, rates him thus: "A good man, but a poor eater...
...current situation in this great country of ours provided more than a pleasant evening of entertainment. That master card, Smiling Jack Benny, friend of all the little boys down whose throats Jell-o is forced each evening, is the real clown of the show, playing the part of the poor banker just out of Atlanta after a five year vacation there for his noble deeds in the great days of '29. With him as co-partner is a man who threatens to replace Victor Moore as the typification of American stupidity. Porter Hall as this unfortunate "Charlie Meredith...