Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surely far better to allow the productive forces of capital and credit to create wealth and abundance and then, by corrective taxation of profits, meet the needs of the weak and poor! Instead, the Washington Administration has waged so ruthless a war on private enterprise that the United States, with none of the perils and burdens of Europe upon it, is actually at the present moment leading the world back into the trough of depression...
...known as The Limited Editions Club, which, for annual dues of $120, has since 1929 been sending them twelve Fine Books a year. Also on hand were four well-known U. S. artists, cherubic John Steuart Curry, swarthy Thomas Benton, freckle-fisted Reginald Marsh and bright-nosed Henry Varnum Poor. To them the Limited Editions Club's suave Director George Macy awarded four $2,000 "fellowships" to support them while each illustrated a suitable U. S. classic, as yet unnamed...
...TIME Inc.'s President Henry R. Luce. Without waiting on ceremony, the jury had previously awarded a "fellowship" to Artist Grant Wood for a set of illustrations to Main Street. Artist Wood's work, like that of Missourian Benton, Kansan Curry and New Yorkers Marsh & Poor, is for the Limited Editions Club members only...
From the first round it was obvious that an 18-month layoff had rusted Schmeling. He usually is a slow starter, but his timing was unusually poor as Thomas, flailing awkwardly with his right hand sometimes ahead of his left, tapped him at will and won the round. In the second, Thomas landed a low blow and was penalized the round, but it did not belong to him anyway. Schmeling had cut his nose...
Nevertheless, all these forces for health failed last fortnight to prevent an epidemic of virulent diarrhea from striking into the nursery of Chicago's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, an institution with no isolated facilities for maternity care, operated by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. It was the nation's most serious outbreak of this disease. By last week eleven of 19 affected children were dead, only two definitely out of danger...