Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Very Poor Information...
Reading your paper of April 3, I find a writing entitled "Medicine" about the Pan-American Medical Congress, lately celebrated at Dallas, Texas. And I have been greatly surprised to read that Cuba is among the countries whose governments have paid the doctors' expenses. You had a very poor information and I wish you to please make clear that I myself covered all my expenses and I can assure you that no one of the Cuban's doctors received a single penny from the government, and that we were not representing the government. We were there working...
...Brooklyn. Andrew Carnegie gave the first endowment money. Theodore Roosevelt and Publisher Adolph Ochs became interested, but endowments never kept pace with the Berry Schools' growth. Miss Berry needs $150,000 in gifts every year. Only entrance requirement for the Berry Schools is that one be too poor to go elsewhere. Bartering learning for tobacco, oxen, eggs was known to Miss Berry long before U. S. colleges took it up during the past two years. Wearing overalls and gingham dresses, all Berry students must work two days a week. Simple, combining hand with mind, are the Berry courses-liberal...
...interests of the "proletariat." True, his following is drawn from all ranks of people, and there lies the strength of his movement. It is also true that Ghandi prefers class war inaugurating a new regime. Yet none can legitimately indict Ghandi of ever bartering away the rights of the poor. He vigilantly fought for their rights in South Africa. He led their strikes in India. Today again he is risking his life for the social regeneration of oppressed classes. He has consistently championed the cause of the masses long before the word communism was ever heard in India...
...editorials of the second issue of the Harvard Critic express the same apologetic point of view as those of the first. "We know that this is poor stuff, but then this is Harvard, academic, in different, intellectually moribund Harvard; what can you expect?" Once more the editors cry out for someone with something...