Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wounded men, only two died last week, of whom one was Paul Raditch. The great Stefan Raditch lay in hospital, visited twice daily by King Alexander, and from Vienna flew famed Diabetic Specialist Dr. Gustav Singer-for Croat Raditch suffers from diabetes and a bullet in the stomach is poor medicine. After a thorough examination, Dr. Gustav Singer said that the patient might survive...
...Cleveland bishop said, every Catholic prelate has in some manner paraphrased. Memorable was a 1925 speech of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York: ". . . By such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of immorality the situation forebodes. . . . Birth control is heralded because the poor . . . are largely responsible for defectives. Never was there cast . . . a more offensive insult. Defectives, physical or mental, have immortal souls, redeemed by the blood of Christ. The forces of evil . . . would exploit the bodies and ruin the souls of the children of God." (TIME...
...Sinclair Lewises, the Lardners and the Menckens may continue to direct their shafts against our organization and others founded on the same principles. Ridicule is the weapon ... of a poor cause. They may continue to talk about Babbitry and scorn the Rotarian virtues but Rotary International will be known and honored long after Minnesota's much-read but not particularly distinguished expatriate has been found out as the shallow, superficial, overestimated literary cartoonist that...
...President von Hindenburg then called to the Prime Ministry Herr Hermann Müller, prominent Socialist, onetime manual laborer, signer of the Versailles Treaty and head of an undistinguished Cabinet in 1920. Characteristics: slow, poor speaker; once radical, now moderate; humorless and schoolteacherish; dependable party man; has curbed a once copious taste for beer...
...Hearst was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. "Evidence multiplied that he had touched the hearts and gained the confidence of a great multitude, and that he was beginning to be honestly taken as an unterrified champion of the poor and helpless," says Writer Winkler. Yet Hearst was never again elected to any other important public office, though he tried for senator and governor and, at one time, boomed himself for the presidency. The man who finally spiked the political guns of Hearst was Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York...