Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadening of our tax base in the past few years has been very real. What is known as consumers' taxes, namely, the invisible taxes paid by people in every walk of life, fall relatively much more heavily upon the poor man than on the rich...
...been correspondingly strengthened or the physical plant commensurately enlarged. In consequence it has been found that too often faculties are undermanned and laboratories overcrowded. A more serious feature of increasing enrollments is the failure to maintain high academic standards in the selection of students. Too many applicants with poor scholastic records have been accepted, with inevitable impairment of the efficiency of the school...
...hours." Echoed Georgia's other Senator, Richard B. Russell Jr.: "I am expecting the announcement hourly. My only regret is that the loan will not be more than 12? -say 14? or 15? a Ib." Undeterred by the fact that his two Georgia colleagues had been proved poor prophets, Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead last week stoutly asserted: "I think a 12? loan is absolutely sure. I have been in constant communication with the President and I have had no intimation of a change in his views. Yesterday the President told Senator George that...
When moon-faced Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei gave "poor health" as his excuse for resigning (TIME, Aug. 26), correspondents voiced hardboiled doubts that his illness was anything more serious than a case of playing Chinese political possum. This caused Mr. Wang to exclaim angrily: "My illness is very real...
Unlike the great planters and white trash farther north, the white men of southeastern Alabama are neither very rich nor very poor, work harder than their Negro help and run to rugged individualism. In that section is the drowsy market town of Dothan (pop.: 16,000) and the combustible newspaper family of Hall which won the Dothan Eagle three generations ago in a draw poker game. Slim, red-headed Editor Julian Hall, 33, is a first-rate newspaperman, an Alabama "character," a humorist of distinction. Under the Dothan Eagle's heading, Editor Hall daily prints the Biblical quotation...