Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hull's mollification was made easier for the President by the temporary-transfer, three days prior, of Dr. Moley from the State Department to the Justice Department. Internationalist Hull and Nationalist Moley have made poor bedfellows at the State Department. President Roosevelt turned his chief Brain Truster over to Attorney General Cummings for a month to conduct a survey of crime in general, kidnapping and racketeering in particular. Dr. Moley's new assignment was entirely logical inasmuch as he had made his principal pre-election reputation as a crime researcher in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri...
...Town felt a little sorry for the Gown. The professor had security, of course, but so had everyone else and no professor was considered overpaid. As the decade closed and the Town, its income reduced, had to go on supporting State universities by paying taxes, sympathy for the poor professor vanished. This year Depression has caught up to the universities with a vengeance. Of Ohio State's dismissed employes, 57 ranked from instructor to full professor, 127 were junior staff members. 52 nonacademic. Seventy-three others were put on part-time. Seven professors, including Joseph Villiers Denney (English), Herbert...
Whittier was a very handsome man, most attractive to women, says Author Mordell and he found time in between his propaganda work to carry on a lengthy series of flirtations. None of them came to anything. His first few loves rejected him because he was too poor; after that he seems to have become shyer of committing himself. At least once he was proposed to (by Poetess Mary Abigail Dodge), but weaseled out of it. Between the ages of 60 and 80 he attracted poetesses particularly, but "though in two or three poems he even condoned illicit love, he retained...
...inadequate plumbing facilities. I see no reason why girls could not have occupied more cheerful surroundings in Massachusetts, Mower, and Lionel, and surely for such a short period I think that prices of rooms should not vary since it makes no difference to the Summer School whether good or poor rooms are used, since they would go untenanted anyway...
...Josef Stalin's most efficient, most popular man-driver on the railways of the Soviet Union. Suddenly he and the entire corps of five Soviet Railway Vice-Commissars were dismissed. Dictator Stalin's closest working henchman, Commissar of Railways Andrey Andreyev, flayed the ousted five for "poor organization throughout, excessive bureaucracy at the top and bad discipline below, with an absurd amount of red tape and scribbling everywhere...