Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Philadelphia Republicans went to their primary polls, gave Politician Wilson 168,106 votes to Student Hadley's 145,205. Sheriff Richard Weglein, who claimed to be "the only real Republican of the lot," ran a poor third. As expected, Democratic Boss John Bernard ("Jack") Kelly, contractor and famed oarsman, took the Democratic nomination for Mayor hands down. His winning ticket-mate for District Attorney was Curtis Bok, liberal young grandson of the late Publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis...
Since 1912, 1,000 British youngsters from Poor Law institutions have been sent to Pinjarra, only six returned as failures. For five years "Fairbridgians" are given a simple education, supplemented, for the boys, by husbandry, milking, horseshoeing, boxing. At the age of 14 or 15 they are hired out to farm families as apprentices, half of each Fairbridgian's wages being set aside so that at 21 he will have £200. Frowned on as an expensive form of emigration by the British Treasury, the School is a favorite charity of the Prince of Wales; Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; Malcolm...
...Australia recent rains have helped a poor crop but wheat acreage there was sharply curtailed this year. When the December harvest is done Australia will probably have relatively little grain for export, and most of that will go to the Far East. Despite rosy reports on its crop, Russian exports are expected to be light (see p. 19). But the most sudden and surprising upset in the world's wheat trade occurred in Argentina, where drought and locusts cut the prospective harvest nearly 50%. In good Latin American tradition the crop was officially overestimated early in the season, causing...
Born near Geneva, Marat was the son of a poor chemist. He studied medicine in Scotland, became expert in several languages, took up science. Fearless, bitter, he possessed a quick, vivid pen, turned it to account, after the overthrow of the French monarchy, with violent and inflammatory pamphlets. He gradually became powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte...
...bottles of to supply an army. And the fellers have good taste in liquor for the most part. They run to pretty good whiskies, lots of Black and White, Haig and Haig, and Jameson a little too much cheap stuff, perhaps. As far as gins goes, they get in poor stuff, but there is a goodly quantity of London...