Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to be Premier. I am a poor man and need money for my campaign. You people are going to make money. You ought to contribute $40,000 to my campaign and pay me a salary of $5,000 yearly while you are working here...
...expenditures, reduced the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. To the public he is known chiefly as an ardent Prohibitionist and one of the pacifiers of the anthracite coal strike of 1923. Last spring he aspired to be a U. S. Senator, ran a poor third to Messrs. Vare and Pepper in the primaries. Now Mr. Pinchot is without a job; perhaps he will retire to the philosophic pleasures of old age; more likely he will prepare for the next opportunity to do his phoenix trick...
...great work, after the first year, for Leo Strakosch, clever artist, to return to Vienna disguised as a Frenchman, ignite the discontent of land-poor landlords, disseminate the idea that with the Jews happiness had been exiled, overthrow the Government, get the ban repealed, regain his Christian fiancée and be hailed by the populace and mayor of Vienna as "beloved...
...leading German daily. An independent Democrat, he was national democratic treasurer in 1908. A thorough German, he defended the Kaiser during the War, as far as his U. S. patriotism would permit, daily publishing an editorial in English that his attitude might be clearly understood. He died poor owing to a large and unfortunate investment. Friends assumed his debts to keep his press properties intact, as they have been kept since, and added unto by his sons...
...baggage camels. Finally, one of these missed his footing and went sprawling among the boulders, his long legs waving madly to and fro. We couldn't stop, for our would-be visitors were now only a few hundred yards behind, but, looking back a moment later, I saw the poor brute get to its feet and lumber along after...