Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tabasco Delegate Arnulfo Perez: "Where is the God who cannot see the lack of food and all the misery of the common people but can see the pomp and splendor of the Pope? . . . God did not create man. . . . God exists only in books, by which the priests exploit the poor! Man created God, and God only exists in petrified souls. . . . Mexico wants no God and our Party wants...
...could not last forever. Mr. Hoover retired to become the squire of Palo Alto, and Mr. Brown awoke one morning to find himself on trial for accepting bribes. But the unkindest cut of all was when his mistress turned on him and became the chief witness for the prosecution. Poor Mr. Brown's cup is filled to overflowing. As his lawyer so feelingly put it to the jury, "Subconsciously, somewhere in his mind, Brown hopes to be a hero in the mind of the woman he loves. Love is a strange thing indeed. He is married. He and his wife...
...telegram quickly provided "Poor Devil's" identity. Again he was authentically Harry Stockton Boon, auditor for the Department of Agriculture in whose service he has spent 16 years. He left Washington seven weeks ago. Last week he was on his way to San Diego to visit his brother. Captain Ben Boon of the U. S. Army...
...enough conceit to enter the Church as a lay-reader, got himself sent to a squalid hole in Belgium as a missionary. There too he went too far, scandalized the churchly authorities by giving away his money, his clothes, his bed. Fired again, he stayed on with his poor people, began to draw them and send his sketches to Brother Theo. A draughtsman in a Brussels garret taught him the laws of perspective; the rest he learned for himself...
...certain extent, taking more men employers would produce this effect. There are at least two definite ways of reducing the supply of labor in this country. The first is to restrict immigration within narrower and narrower limits. The second is to reduce the birth rate among the poor. Unless one is willing to see one or both of these things done, he has no right to pose as the friend of the laboring...