Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your June 25 issue an article on page 20 deals with the wreck of an express train near Nuremberg, Germany, in connection with the application of the German National Railway Company for an increase of rates. . . . Your article implies that the Nuremberg accident was due to poor condition of the railroad caused by lack of money and that a rate increase would remedy this situation. . . . I have before me the 1927 annual report of the German National Railway Company and find that the number of accidents in 1927, measured by traffic volume, was lower than under the excellent...
...gravely accused of accepting as much as 20 or even 25 francs (80? or $1) as an illegal fee or bribe for "expediting" the papers. Piteously M. Le Registrar Chipot plead that when the franc declined to one fourth its pre-War value, "it became customary for us poor registrars to accept whatever fees were offered." The 119 judges, touched by this appeal, suspended Registrar Chipot for two months only, then adjusted his suspension to fall exactly within the two months annual vacation of the Court, at which time the Registrar has no duties and no opportunity to earn fees...
...hierarchal Church of England for his career. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford (after a period at Glasgow University) had something to do with his decision. By 1901 he had become Bishop of Stepney and Canon of St. Paul's, London, and used to work with the grubby, grimy poor. In 1907, Edward VII offered him the Bishopric of Montreal. He refused. The Archbishopric of York was in his hopes. Next year he gained it. . . . Able prelates last week mooted as successors to him at York are: Frederic Sumpter Guy Warman, Bishop of Chelmsford; Herbert Hensley Henson, Bishop of Burham...
...When I was ten years old my mother took me to see the poor of the town of Salisbury, Md., for the first time. From then until I went to college she took me regularly on her visits to the homes of drunkards and sufferers. There were 12 saloons in Salisbury, and much poverty. When my mother organized the W. C. T. U. [in Salisbury] there were only two women. But it was a beginning, and they made the town dry. My mother never wore any jewelry except one pin, the gold-enameled pin of the white ribbon. When...
...have many rich relatives, but they have no money for their poor relatives...