Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single-minded aristocrats who officer the Japanese Army made odd alliance three years ago with Japan's Depression-ridden farmers, whose sons happen to fill the Army ranks. Farmers and officers, both poor and oldfashioned, unite in hating all that Westernization has brought Japan except the guns. They hate democracy, free capitalism, politics, graft, social unrest. Without claiming to know much about economics, they feel that Japan could have both low taxes for farmers and a huge defense budget. Let the Emperor bleed the capitalists! Last week with conspiratorial secrecy, the officers rushed through the Government presses...
Retiring to the point of anonymity is Morris Joseloff, vice president and director of New England's chain First National Stores, Inc. Only his intimate friends know that he has a private pension list of poor to whom he sends weekly checks, that last year he financed a sandwich and coffee stand for Hartford, Conn. unemployed, that Sir John Lavery's portrait of his wife was exhibited in last year's Royal Academy show...
REMBRANDT would have liked to paint poor but honest Frau Pauline Hauptmann who on Nov. 20, 1899 at Kamenz, Germany gave birth to Bruno Rich ard Hauptmann, accused of extorting ransom for the return of the Lindbergh baby, suspected of the kidnapping and murder. Apple-cheeked Bruno saw battlefront service, was 19 when the War ended. He came through unscathed, undistinguished, but two brothers were killed. After the War he broke his mother's heart by turning out to be the bad boy of Kamenz. He served one term for theft, escaped a second by breaking jail. Twice he entered...
...discussion. It is, however, almost a rule that the better men will not bother to speak parrot-like what they have read during the week because they are bored and realize that the other members of the section should have read the same thing. On the other hand, a poor man will not expose his difficulties because his misunderstanding will probably be the cause of a lower grade. If the value given to discussion in the sections could be reduced there would result a franker discussion of greater value to the students...
...Outlook Poor...