Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naturally, it would fall on everybody," declared he. "Taxes always fall heaviest on the poor because there are so many of them...
...Legend has it that Dr. Townsend's new life began when he looked out of his California window one day, saw two crones dining from a garbage can. It is more reasonable to suppose that the old physician was set to brooding on the sorrows of the aged poor by the fact that his own savings were swept away by Depression and, instead of enjoying the well-earned ease and security which he had expected, he was forced at 60-odd to scrape a living as a real-estate salesman. In these circumstances Dr. Townsend conceived his Plan...
...after them hammer and tongs for being totally incompetent, as we know they are. . . . We should begin ... to talk about the 'Townsend Party,' not wait in the foolish hope that one of the old groups will adopt us. If they do, they will treat us like poor adopted trash. To hell with them...
Would his tax fall on the poor...
...Finding it difficult to control his power, however, be soon withdrew. John M. Potter '26, head tutor, confined his activity to remarking on the excellent condition of the green, a remark obviously aimed at numerous loudly voiced opinions that their technique was not entirely to blame for their poor shots...