Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side can be stated somewhat as follows: Thousands of old people in the country are too poor to support themselves in any degree of decency, and are likewise too old to carry a paying job. Therefore the Government should use all its great resources in making the last years of these aged as comfortable as possible...
...year ago. on the day before Congress met, he was chosen Floor Leader of one of the biggest Democratic majorities in House history (TIME, Jan. 14). Same day he went to the hospital with one of his repeated attacks of acute indigestion followed by a heart attack. So poor was his health that all last winter, spring and summer he was unable to assume his House duties, and the New Deal had to get along as best it could without a floor leader. Part of those duties were assumed by goodhearted Speaker Byrns, part by aged Representative Edward Thomas Taylor...
...conciliation remains open. . . . My will is not broken because it has proved a failure! . . . I shall persevere, whatever happens, in ardent, untiring action for peace." This was throwing down the gauntlet with a vengeance-a supreme act of po- litical courage. With an entire world of sympathy for poor little Ethiopia and the poor big League of Nations pullulating around him, Peasant Laval could almost be seen to dig his toes into the earthy al- ternatives of peace & war as he tenaciously clung to the thesis of The ("Dead") Deal: peace by negotiation now and. since Italy is today...
Neither running fox nor fighting badger, Governor Hoffman proved poor sport. After conceding that the Lindberghs "must have had sufficient reasons for their act," he refused the Press everything but a cheery "No comment." At week's end he declared: "I probably would say something if Colonel Lindbergh personally attributed to me the reason for his leaving the U. S. I won't reply to second-hand passers of information." But by that time the pack were too busy snapping & snarling at each other to pay heed...
...prominent members of the world's unburied dead. Still alive at 86, he retired eight years ago, now lives in senile seclusion on his French estate at Balincourt. To pacifists the single-handed murderer of millions, to Reds a mummified museum-piece of capitalism, to fellow-tycoons a poor old rich boy, Zaharoff remains a juicy prey for some future historian. Much has been said and written about him during his long life, but most of the facts remain conjectural...