Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circulate as currency. Thus not only is the socialization of agriculture and industry financed, but also predatory (that is, all) banks are wiped out. Once set in motion, the land colonies and state factories gradually drive all capitalistic enterprise into bankruptcy, and in an incredibly brief time rich and poor become words of the past...
...which Sinclair expects to work out with such rapidity that after two years the historian of his reign will write, "The Governor made a last speech over the radio, saying that he had caused a thorough investigation to be made throughout the State of California, and that the only poor person he had been able to find was a religious hermit who lived in a cave. Therefore he considered his job done, and he purposed to go home and write a novel...
...smothered the Long candidate, John Klorer. Klorer received 31,869 votes. An independent Democrat named Francis Williams got 26,673. Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley topped the ticket with 48,752. Since Democrat Walmsley had no clear majority, Klorer was entitled to a run-off primary. But the Longster, a poor second against the massed votes of his opponents, had no stomach for another contest. Thus Semmes Walmsley, whose rough-&-ready politics were learned through a long apprenticeship with the Choctaw Club (New Orleans' Tammany), was conceded a second term as Mayor of the Crescent City...
...famed Nazi winter relief fund supposed to total 780,000,000 marks ($293,000,000), one Else Lucas, 62, a language teacher, said to supposed friends : "That would have meant 150 marks ($56) for every unemployed German instead of the few pennies and some potatoes a few poor people got. It's cheating the people, that's what it is." Last week she got six months...
...Adamic heard a story which he says illustrates the Montenegrin's two great virtues: A man about to be shot was asked if he had ever been in a worse fix. Yes, he answered, once-"when a man came to see me from afar and I was so poor that I had nothing in the house to offer him." Adamic was offered and refused the Jugoslavian Order of the White Eagle, afterward had a mutually cold interview with King Alexander, whom he considers of a piece with "the rest of the tyrants and dictators...