Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles B. Feibleman '36, George Gore '34, Malcolm A. Hoffman '34, Howard M. Lawn '34, Isadore Rosenblatt '34, Thomas H. Quinn '36, Symour M. Peyser '34. Malcolm A. Hoffman '34, Howard M. Lawn '34, Issdore Rosenblatt '34, Thomas H. Quinn '36, Asa E. Phillips, Jr. '34, Henry V. Poor '36, Powers McLean '35, and Victor H. Kramer '35. These men will compete for places on the team in another series of trails to be held on Wednesday, March 21, at 4.15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. The winner of the competition will receive the Coolidge award...
...payments. Snowden, speaking of "treasury difficulties and impaired credit," favored increasing the premiums or reducing the benefits. Old George wanted neither. He told Snowden: "I never have been able to understand treasury economics. ... I can't see that ?20 taken from a rich man and given to 20 poor men means a loss of business. . . . Let's call for sacrifices all round. Instead of starting with the weak and hopeless-that is, the unemployed down-&-outs-let's start at the top . . . unless we are willing to say, 'Let them starve.'" Not long afterward...
...Federal politicians were appalled. They ordered Tejeda to back down. He pondered the law. finally changed the word "social" to "public" and signed it. It took Calles' men six months to get him out of office and make his law a dead-letter. Whereupon some 15,000 poor Veracruz farmers armed themselves and went to war against the Government. Boss Calles began to suspect that Senor Tejeda was a troublemaker. He knew it when Tejeda resigned from the National Revo lutionary Party, announced that he was a candidate for President and roved out of his home State to stump...
...Medici, she became a mother at 22, a widow at 34. Thereafter under the guidance of a confessor, who later became St. Vincent de Paul, Mme Le Gras devoted herself to good works. In 1633 she gathered about her four young women whom she trained in caring for the poor. Out of this community grew the Daughters (or Sisters) of Charity-first active, non-contemplative order of women. Mme Le Gras founded schools, foundling homes, homes for the aged and, in 1640, a hospital. In Poland in 1646 the Sisters of Charity were the first women ever to nurse...
...Bolinas touched a new high. Ralph Kenyon, 24, father of twins, who had just received his last CWA check, had found 75 lb. Cried he: "I've always been poor. Now I can build a home and educate my children." Mail Carrier Harold Henry and wife stopped worrying about how they would pay for their new baby, expected any day. Ronald Gandee, 24-year-old Coast Guardsman, shouted that at last he could marry his sweetheart Frances Longley. Tony Roberts, 26, milker; Warren Wosser, 28, jobless fireman; Eddie Souza, 24. substitute fireman and James Nettro, 26. trainman, all gloated...