Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Communists would be dullards indeed if they did not cultivate such a vineyard of the poor. Accordingly, the Alliance has to play a canny game of Truth & Consequences with hostile investigators like Congressman Martin Dies. Fact is that the relatively small Communist fraction in Alliance ranks is larger than in most trades unions. Last week in Cleveland many of the delegates lodged with local Communists. The convention barred two New Yorkers who complained that, just as the Communists have tempered their revolutionary doctrines (TIME, May 30), so has the Alliance gone milk-&-watery in its dealings with...
...Amagansett, were in worse case. More than four in every ten of their stately elms crashed. The sea rushed up and over the dunes to lash even at the Maidstone Country Club on its high bluff, obliterating the golf course and 50 prize flower gardens. Rich summer colonists and poor fisher folk suffered alike. Falling trees crushed the Maidstone Hotel. The Bridgehampton freight station was shunted smack across the tracks...
Chief problem in Centerville is poor dirt roads, which keep a traveling library away, make newspapers and mail late, compel farmers to do their own carrying to market. When Farmer Hand, trucking strawberries, gets stuck in the mud and his strawberries spoil, Centerville's people decide to build a concrete road. Crotchety old Farmer Banks (who is unpopular among Centerville's children because he chases swimmers from his creek) stalls progress by refusing to let his barn be moved out of the way, but finally gives in to avoid accidents at a sharp turn in the road near...
About 229 applications for the positions were made to Miss Peter this year, Phelps said, but pointed out that many have to be rejected if the Dean's office reports that their standing is poor. Although 230 monitor posts are open, the number of attendance-takers is really much less than that, owing to the fact that that most of them make reports for more than one course...
...speech he merely showed the intellectual and practical impoverishment of the Republican national leadership by bringing forward the usual vague charges of corruption of the party out of power, and advocated an amateur administration of relief. The Republicans will have to find something more than this rather poor philosophy of individual morals if they are to do anything practical again...