Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid New England has received but a tiny share of Federal bounty. At his chief speech, in Worcester, he tackled taxes themselves, declared that income and estate taxes had been increased only for the rich-"less than 1% of the heads of American families"gave the impression that poor are paying less in indirect taxes than they did in 1932. The undistributed profits tax on corporations he described as an advantage to stockholders but promised that if "imperfections" were discovered in its application, they would be remedied...
...despite an excellent cast, "Ladies in Love" falls into the class of lower mediocrity with a definite and final thud. Simone Simon has lost all the appeal she had in "Girls Dormitory," and although we any pleased to see Janet Gaynor back again her return is wasted on a poor show...
Under the New Deal, legislation has been enacted with almost stunning rapidity. Quite aside from the poor framing and inconsistencies manifested, effective administration for all those laws could not be set up within a short space of time. Washington has been bordering on chaos. Much of this legislation may be highly desirable in principle. It is in grave danger of falling into disrepute, however, merely because of the haste with which it was enacted and the impossible burden assumed by the executive branch of the government. By its own rash action, the New Deal has been imperilling true social reform...
Small pecan growers pick their own crops whereas big growers depend on nomadic bands who go anutting after the cotton picking season is over. Threshers may be Negroes, Mexicans, half-breed Indians or poor whites, and the typical crew, made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers...
...book begins in August 1931 when sly, timid, little Danny O'Neill has been taken into his grandmother's home because his own parents are too poor to bring him up properly. Pampered by his pipe-smoking old grandmother, Danny suffers from loneliness, becomes a passionate student of big-league batting records, slowly learns a few of the facts of life from the brutal disclosures of his big brother Bill. He starts school, gets sick, snitches on Bill, gets beaten up, is becoming a moody, evasive, introspective child, ill at ease both in his own home...