Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medal for other ranks. The D.S.O. fell into disrepute during the late War-as indeed what decoration except the V.C. did not?-for it was issued to field commanders like confetti at a carnival, fr>r successes earned by N.C.O.'s and gloriously anonymous privates of the P.B.I. (Poor Bloody Infantry). The common procedure for incompetent colonels was to give them a D.S.O. and send them back to England...
...jail. . . . 'Sanitary Kelly' will never finish his term as mayor." The Chicago police, on orders from City Hall, ferreted out all available copies of the Mangan pamphlet, destroyed them while Chicago sniggered. Last week's tax disclosures did not help Mayor Kelly's already poor standing with President Roosevelt who as Governor of New York ousted Sheriff Thomas ("Tin Box'') Farley because he could not adequately explain his large income. Governor Roosevelt laid down this rule: "Where a public official is under inquiry and it appears that his scale of living or the total...
...recalled to London and then despatched post haste to Irak by agitated Scot MacDonald. Meanwhile in Bagdad, King Feisal who as a Mohammedan does not greatly object to the massacre of Assyrians or other Christians, tried to dodge all responsibility by insisting that his health is poor, that he must fly to Switzerland "to complete my cure...
About 22% of all U. S. public school children have poor eyesight. This is not entirely their teachers' fault or the fault of the buildings in which they study. But the percentage might well drop if schools were better lighted, and if busy teachers did not have to be relied on to raise and lower windowshades. So argued Engineer D. W. Atwater of Westinghouse Lamp Co. in a lecture at New York University fast week advocating a light-control device for schoolrooms. In a metal & glass cabinet affixed to the wall is a photoelectric cell adjusted to snap...
...bought her No. 265, a fine house built in the days when Henry Street was fashionable. Miss Wald founded clubs, classes in arts & crafts, English, citizenship. Long before "recreation centres" were known she put swings in the back yard and invited the street children in. When nursing of the poor was confined to sloppy free dispensaries and sectarian organizations, she founded a visiting nurse service, encouraging self-respecting people to pay for it when they could. Today Henry Street has a staff of 274, with 21 centres, a theatre, play school, music school, summer camps. Miss Wald has raised some...