Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprised to know how often he had voted a split ticket. By the time Franklin Roosevelt reached Hyde Park, the news of his virtual repudiation of Dr. Copeland was in the papers. Immediate conjecture was that the President had thrown the New York Senator down because of his poor rating as a New Deal supporter. Hastily Secretary Marvin McIntyre assured the Press that the President would also vote for Senator Copeland...
...President Deschanel of France to leave the privacy of his own railway compartment that in 1920, while relieving himself through an open window, he fell out of the train in his pajamas and ruined his political career. No such clumsy timidity bothers the little Tsar of Bulgaria. Far too poor to have a private train of his own, Boris III is apt to be all over the public trains he uses. Like the late great Albert of Belgium, Tsar Boris is an impassioned locomotive engineer, likes to spend much time in the engine cab, although he by no means...
...suggest that possibility. Instead he bombarded Jew Weizmann with questions about the first Zionist Congress of 1897, at which Sergei Nilus declared the Protocols were drawn up. This Dr. Weizmann denied. Admitting he did not attend the Congress, he explained: "I did not have enough money. ... I was a poor student in Russia...
There was a good reason for steel's poor showing. Buyers were using the inventories they collected last spring when the steelmasters were so loudly resigning themselves to a nation-wide strike. Meantime business receded, and hand-to-mouth buying barely kept the mills rolling...
...kindly, simple, generous to charities and other painters. He once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a 10-year 1,000-franc annuity instead. Dealers took advantage of his sliding scale of prices whereby he charged the rich much, the poor little. Paris knew him and loved him as le bonhomme Corot, a brawny celibate who in his youth could and did knock a peasant down with his fist...