Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week carried a mass of official-looking documents to a va- cant lot in Denver, tore the papers to tatters, heaped them high, squirted them with kerosene, touched off a match and cried out over the flames: "Do you think I want homes in Denver ruined? . . . All you poor girls, you troubled women, who have given me your confidence that I might help you, rest now in peace. Your secrets are safe...
...which the Federal Reserve Board had lately with its Chicago member bank, when Mr. Crissinger was charged with domineering because he cast a deciding vote to make the Chicago bank lower its rediscount rate against its will (TIME, Sept. 19, BUSINESS). Mr. Crissinger explained that his wife's poor health and his own opportunity to increase his income as an executive of a District of Columbia investment banking house (the F. H. Smith Co.**) made his act personally imperative...
Mister Romeo. Taking up with the ladies of the burlesque shows is a lot easier than letting up, is the experience of another doddering Romeo of the farce-ways. J. C. Nugent makes him a pathetic fool, but what really startled the audience was the fact that this poor business was, in part, the work of Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble who once wrote a good play, March Hares...
...Still in his 30's, son of a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Inventor Baird has won the esteem of Science after overcoming the inventor's traditional obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...
Speeches. Last week in Detroit, speakers remembered how badly they had been treated in 1898. Governor of Michigan Fred W. Green† said, "Never did an Army leader take the field with such poor equipment and such poor food as America in the days of '98. The same thing would happen if we went to war now. . . ." Major General Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff, protested: "The 1920 National Defense Act is ... developing excellently. ... It is what the title proclaims, an Act designed to procure adequate peacetime military establishment. . . ." Miss Jennie R. Dix, president of the Spanish War Nurses...