Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general sales tax, such as recently proposed for Massachusetts, the governor described as "one of the most subtly vicious taxes ever devised," since it cuts into the poor man's dollar far more than the rich...
...week but last week Mr. Lewis was already at work on the jury. To the assembled miners he sighed: "I know of but one member of the United Mine Workers of America who has fulfilled the function of a traitor to this great movement of ours. He is a poor little pusillanimous man who sees ghosts at night and pays his own penalty for his perfidy...
...only or youngest child is a poor risk unless married to an oldest or middle child. Most successful mating is that of an oldest child with another oldest. ¶Chances of success are greater if an individual marries another of similar family background...
...Yiddish drama, even more widely known than The Golem (TIME, March 29). Every major city in the world has seen it staged; it has been translated into 17 tongues, including Esperanto. Rappaport died before his play was produced, but he left the rights to it in trust for the poor of Warsaw's ghetto. Last week, for the benefit of Polish Jews, Manhattan cinemagoers paid as high as $10 a seat to see The Dybbuk's U. S. premiére as a motion picture...
MONPTI - Gabor Vaszary - Knopf ($2.50). Reminiscent of the early Knut Hamsun, the Paris romance of a poor Hungarian student and an ingenuous coquette. For its full laugh-&-cry flavor, add Chopin accompaniment...