Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon your well chosen news in Medicine. I was especially pleased to note that you commended Julius Rosenwald's latest philanthropy in establishing a clinic for the middle class. I wish others would follow his good example, for nowhere is there a greater need than help for the "poor and proud" in serious illness, by endowing good Hospitals so they can make rates that can be met by people of moderate means...
...their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place of horror' to where the convicts were fed on Kansas flour instead of the soft indigestible (4 out of 5) local grown wheat which was good enough for the poor damn ranchers who only paid the taxes. 'His splendid system of roads are famous' for the political organizations he made out of the road camps. In these he made the slight error this year of making the tithe too heavy and Arizona is without her "protector...
Frenchmen naturally received the Cahill Report, last week, with marked distaste. They do not like to appear too prosperous. Their Parliament has not yet ratified the Franco-U.S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926); and their statesmen like to repeat that France is too poor to pay. Also negotiations are about to begin for the purpose of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). France wishes her statesmen to attend these solely on the basis that there shall be no scaling down of the reparations owed by Germany to War-devastated and impoverished France...
...week the National Federation of Music Clubs invited Soprano Rosa Ponselle to head the Honor List in their new Hall of Fame for rising U. S. artists. Hereafter, within the Federation, Nov. 15 will be known as Rosa Ponselle Day. On that day ten years ago Ponselle, daughter of poor Italian immigrants, made her Metropolitan Opera debut, singing Leonora in La Forza del Destino, with Caruso...
Mother Stoner, too, organizer of the World League for the Promotion of Genius,! had something to say: "Poor girl! It is a terrible thing to be in the public eye as a so-called prodigy. No one who has any sense wants to be appearing in the papers...