Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jaded legislators clutched at this as the way to get home, passed a hard & fast resolution to adjourn at midnight. But as twilight set in the President learned that an unpleasant fly was buzzing in his adjournment cup- Huey Long. The Senator from Louisiana was roaring that the poor farmers had been betrayed, said he would keep roaring until midnight, killing the $93,000,000 deficiency bill for Social Security, which had been caught in the cotton battle (see p. 10). He kept his word. A little after midnight, the President was working at his desk. Secretary Stephen T. Early...
This doesn't mean that Harlow is faced with unusually poor material for his first season. The squad won't be especially strong, but it should be at least up to average, and if some of the prospects contained in it develop as hoped, there will be the possibility of a fine unit...
...hero last week (see above), forced into prominence the deep, half-hidden split between popular Nazi demagogs and Adolf Hitler's unpopular Big Business friends whose key man is Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and charged by the Realmleader with finding money for everything from poor relief to export subsidies and pocket battleships...
...financier. Down to meet them swooped from the interior their common brother-in-law. Generalissimo Chiang. A minor problem first to be disposed of was the abrupt resignation 'of Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and several lesser members of the Cabinet. Moon-faced Mr. Wang resigned "because of poor health," the others "in sympathy with Mr. Wang." Politicians, they were getting out in advance of the coming Kuomintang (National People's Party) Congress which promises to erupt with indignation against the Government's unparalleled series of surrenders to Japan (TIME, June 17 & 24). surrenders which included dissolving...
Daniel Jenkins became a Baptist minister. Soon Minister Jenkins preached a sermon on "The Harvest Is Great but the Labor ers Are Few." persuaded his congregation to help him found an orphanage for poor black moppets. That was in 1891. Daniel Jenkins proceeded to rid Charleston of its roaming, thieving "Wild Children." In two buildings in the city, in farms and schools outside it, he has cared for as many as 536 orphans at a time, today has some 300 in his charge. Of the thousands of Negroes turned out of the Jenkins Orphanage at 14, he claims that less...