Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong and early champion of the idea that German imperialism cannot be wholly blamed for the War. Though a Democrat, the new Ambassador is a political unknown holding his first public office. As a college professor he was gleefully welcomed into the Roosevelt "Brain Trust." A relatively poor man, he hopes to get along in Berlin on his $17,500 salary. "After all," said he, "the days of show are over." Last week President Roosevelt also made the following diplomatic appointments which the Senate confirmed: Lincoln MacVeagh of New Canaan, Conn. to be Minister to Greece. A Groton-Harvard...
...Came the dawn and he was still there, disheveled and wild-eyed, with the yo-yo string still dangling from his trembling fingers. . . . Eventually poor Blennerhassett was taken away. . . . Today he is happy in a quiet place in the country and under sympathetic surveillance he practices...
...ranged alphabetically, in French, by tactful Alfred the Seater so that Cordell Hull of Tennessee (Etats Unis) sat at the end of a row, before, not next to, the kinky-polled delegates from Addis Ababa (Ethiopie). The League of Nations organizing committee invited 67 nations but Panama was too poor to accept. Among the official delegates is one Chief of State: President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland. There are eight Prime Ministers, 20 Foreign Ministers, 80 assorted Finance and other Cabinet Ministers and heads of central banks. Potent foreign statesmen in London are by no means limited to the official delegates...
...swear allegiance to the civil government. In retirement he tried to hold his parish together, sometimes saying masses in caves like the Early Christians. Andrè Fournet was twice exiled to Spain, returned in 1801. In 1806 he founded the Daughters of the Holy Cross, for work among poor girls, with Jeanne Marie Elizabeth Lucie Bichier des Ages, who had also been persecuted...
...mails news of lottery and sweepstake winnings. Said he: ''The only publicity I would object to would be outright advertisement of the lotteries. The law says we can't have that. The papers can go ahead, though, and print all the news there is about the poor chambermaid or the unemployed coal miner who bought a ticket for a shilling or two and won $1,000,000 in cash money. I think that is a great story always and if it is going to impair our morals to know what goes on in the world that...