Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Petroleum Council, wrote President Roosevelt demanding the removal of Secretary Ickes as Administrator of the Petroleum Code. Mr. Ickes was accused of being ''incompetent, inexperienced, unqualified, temperamentally unfitted, unfair, biased . . . lacking in a proper conception of real government functions." Said the Jones letter: "He exhibits a poor and ridiculous management of the industry's affairs and plays upon public opinion by frightening the people about false issues such as an impending and imminent oil shortage, waste...
...they have certain privileges that the rest of us shall not have." Yale is doing all she can, you see, along your own lines of student aid, and if she turned your offer down, it was not because she had any lofty ideas about the evils of educating the poor, as such...
...Lacrosse, Coach Pool feels, should have great appeal because it possesses not only speed and ruggedness, but also a continuity of play, such as is associated with hockey. When a poor throw is made, the ball may readily be retrieved off the wall without necessitating any delay from whistle blowing...
Scene is a poor district of north Dublin during the 1916 Easter Week Rebellion. Mr. O'Casey has no illusions about that shabby affray. His Commandant Jack Clitheroe of the Irish Citizen Army is a crack-brained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. An idealistic Socialist called "The Covey" does not have the courage to go out into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief...
...Norwich, England, Harry Stanley Green, bank clerk, transferred $70,000 from the accounts of rich clients to those of poor clients, took no shilling for himself. Confident that he had helped to relieve the Depression, Altruist Green went to jail for a year...