Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania is not ranked as one of the top circuit teams after a poor finish last season and none too good prospects this spring, while Coach Fred Mitchell has hopes for the Crimson nine. But neither team has been tested to date, and no defluite prediction can be made on today's outcome...
WASHINGTON--America's roving ambassador, Norman H. Davis, is forsaking the precarious footing of European political intrigue to become national chairman of the Red Cross, President Roosevelt announced today. Davis, 59, and reportedly in poor health, succeeds the late Admiral Cary T. Grayson...
...Charles D. Mahttie. Meantime, in Washington, the Association of American Railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association "decided to wait and see what the President is going to do'' before discussing wage cuts. Said R.L.E.A. President George L. Harrison after the meeting: "They told us how poor they were." Said A.A.R. President J. J. Pelley: "And they told us how poor they were...
...born in Washington, D. C., was educated at the University of Wisconsin, worked on newspapers in the North, blue-eyed, 42-year-old Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is pure Southerner in her literary career. Both her novels (South Moon Under, Golden Apples) and her short stories have dealt with the poor whites who live in the Florida scrub where she and her journalist husband went to live...
...around the lobby of Atlanta's Kimball House, deep in his cups, delivering his matchless tirades against the North. The other was the tvpe represented by the nervous, embattled Tom Watson of Thomson, only nine years old when the war ended, who began as a champion of the poor farmers, became a Populist candidate for President, and wound up as a rabble-rouser, an anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, defender of lynching, with a reputation as the "basest, most depraved, most poisonous man in Georgia...