Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: He is married, has a daughter. In Washington he stays at the unpretentious Hotel Continental, is socially inactive. Nearly every weekend he commutes to his home in Huntington, W. Va. During these visits he performs free operations for the poor. He has a comfortable income from half interest in two hospitals...
...citizens of Waukesha could not believe their ears. By common consent Franklin D. Roosevelt's infirmity has not been mentioned in a political speech for two years-not since his followers themselves pointed to it in the campaign of 1932 to down rumors that his health was too poor to survive the rigors of the Presidency. The Press has studiously refrained from referring to the condition of his legs. Citizens have bitterly resented even the most oblique reference to it in public. It was taboo. Were it not for occasional press photographs showing him steadying himself...
...Bennett but it has the wild approval of Canada's masses. In fear of them Premier Bennett took no steps to discipline his Minister, sailed for Geneva to attend the League of Nations. Emotional Mr. Stevens again called himself "Conservative,'' ignored suggestions that he lead a poor man's rebellion against the Conservative Party chiefs. Last week Premier Bennett was back in Ottawa and Minister Stevens found that he could no longer outface the intolerable situation The Pamphlet had put him into. He resigned as Minister and as Chairman of the Royal Commission...
...considered a Washington fixture. A San Francisco youth who won the city tennis championship at 14, his baseball ability attracted the attention of a scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1924. He played for Pittsburgh in 1926 and 1927, went back to the minor leagues as an incorrigibly poor batter. A Senator scout rediscovered him at Kansas City in 1928. In two years his batting average jumped from .243 to .346. After the 1932 season, Owner Griffith made him manager of the team. When the Senators won the pennant las year, Joe Cronin was as much a hero to Washington...
Figuring that some stronger man must be behind a leader who looks like Adolf Hitler, groping feature writers have for months been serving up Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen (pronounced Tissen) as the shrewd Maécenas who "bought" the Nazis when they were poor, the Master Mind of National Socialism...