Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to rate Aaa. Best municipal bonds are those in Massachusetts, where the State has power to reorganize the finances of weak municipalities and no city rates less than A. Among the worst are those of Florida, where Fort Myers and St. Augustine both rate Caa (poor) and the town of Frostproof rates Ca (one notch above worthless). Last week 500 delegates to the annual Conference of the Municipal Finance Officers' Association sat down in St. Paul's Hotel Lowry to investigate the whys & wherefores of such sorry ratings, learn how to steer a straighter course through Depression...
...dispossessed until finally the landlord's men had burned them out of their shacks. Said Lázaro Cárdenas in a cold rage to his host: "Don't you know that it is the duty of the rich and fortunate to help the poor? Are you not ashamed to burn the houses of a few poor peons because they want a little piece of land? Don't you know that it is the duty of the Government to help poor peons to. become citizens...
Rich Man, Poor Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plays patiently with the notion that the really oppressed people in the U. S. are the Great Middle Class-of which, says Lew Ayres, crossing his heart, there are 90,000,000 members. This social philosophy is complicated by the most thoroughly tiresome Cinderella romance of the summer season...
...memorial will not be isolated. When saturnine old A. I. du Pont died in 1935 he left a trust fund of $4,000,000, $1,000,000 in cash and "Nemours," his 1,600-acre Wilmington estate, to establish a foundation for Delaware's crippled children and aged poor. For this foundation, the $300,000 mausoleum will be the architectural centre. It was reported last week that as soon as workmen finish waterproofing the vaults, Jessie Ball du Pont, A. I.'s widow, may have a section of Nemours' high wall knocked down to allow public inspection...
Engaged. Sally Poor Clark, 18, nightclub singing sister-in-law of John Aspinwall Roosevelt; and George Xavier McLanahan, 25; in Nahant, Mass...