Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Told he might be offered a reward, well-trained little Diplomat Alonso exclaimed: "A reward for what-doing my duty? . . . Give it in food to needy families or in toys to poor children...
...useful purpose in providing needed advice for persons whose circumstances do not give them easy access to lawyers is undeniable. Furthermore the sponsors and producers of the program cannot be held responsible for a system that makes law and justice a difficult and terrifying matter to persons who are poor and depressed...
...complete agreement with Critic Stein, but for different reasons, were the members of the New York County Lawyers' Association, who thought the program implied that poor people could get no relief at law because of the high cost of litigation. The Chicago Bar Association's Public Relations Committee Chairman Mitchell Dawson raid he thought that the program exploited "human misery for commercial purposes . . . encroaches on the practice of law . . . undermines confidence in the courts whose judges lend themselves to the scheme...
...Louis in 1904. Precipitator of the shuffle was Phoenix Securities' smart President Wallace Groves, who bought Mr. Brown's controlling interest in Certainteed last spring. What Mr. Groves wanted was a stake in the current building boom. What he acquired was a big com pany with a poor record. Certainteed has had losses every year from 1928 to 1935, when it made a small profit. It shows a loss for the first nine months...
...year. The unsavory talent which was once lavished upon 'legging is now employed in what is usually known as "the numbers." Credited with having put the numbers on a big-business basis was the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer.* In pennies, nickels, dimes, dollars, mostly from the poor, the money pours into the underworld in an ever-golden stream. The profit margin is high, for while the odds are 1000-to-1, the payoff is usually 600-to-1. Moreover, the runner generally gets 10% of the winnings as commission and an additional tip is in order. Welching...