Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently the only new item, on which the Forum wishes to improve the plight of the poor, under-expressed, censored Harvard undergraduate, is in the matter of Parliamentary procedure and if one is to judge from the conduct of the other clubs, such an ambition is not to be ridiculed...
...which largo industrialists have secured for themselves with government sanction will never be retaken from them." It is this in the New Deal that I object to; it is this objection which any honest person should object to. It is the taxing of the bread and meat of the poor that I object to; it is the encouragement given by the Federal Government to the states and local governments to increase expenditure that I object to, because it is the worker who; in the end, must pay. Much of this legislation to relieve debtors is for the sake...
...balance wheel of industry, creates a market for thousands of types of manufactured goods; 2) a widespread public housing program, while more expensive than the dole, has the advantage of yielding in the form of public improvements some concrete return on the Government's money; 3) the poor of city and country have a real need for better housing...
Hillside will have to charge about the same rents as RFC-financed Knickerbocker Village (TIME, Oct. 15), $12.50 per room per month. As a result its apartments will be taken over by white-collar tenants since the poor for whom it was intended cannot possibly pay that much. One of the prime reasons for high rents is the cost of labor on the job. At Hillside, bricklayers get $13.20 a day, plasterers and stonecutters, $12; carpenters, masons, electricians, $11.20. As every contractor knows, there can be no low-cost housing at such a wage scale for the building trades...
President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co. gave Education a round scolding for having alienated its Radio pupils by "monotony and poor showmanship." Cried he: "People do not want to be educated. They want entertainment. . . . Our guilt lies in having been too big-hearted in our desire to help educators." By way of support. NBC's program director produced a testimonial from Henry L. Mencken: "The pedagogs now have all the time they can fill profitably-and more. Their programs are puerile and dull. There is no evidence that they would do any better if they...