Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford, General Counsel Robert H. Jackson of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an engaging young man who believes that the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor, began a lively poker game before the Committee with Henry Ford's fortune for imaginary blue chips. At stake was the important question of what would become of Ford Motor Co. when Father Henry dies and Son Edsel has to pay record-breaking death taxes...
What the bill as passed meant was that: 1) aged poor pensioned by states would be given an equal pension by the Federal Government, up to $15 a month; 2) unemployment insurance (maximum: $15 for 26 weeks a year) would be established as soon as states passed appropriate laws; 3) workers who reach 65 after 1941 would receive Federal annuities; 4) eventually some 30,000,000 persons would receive such federal benefits; 5) taxes on payrolls and wages to provide these benefits will begin with the collection of about $230,000,000 in 1936 and amount to about...
...team). After a preliminary venture into professional sport as owner of the Palace A. C. (basketball), he bought the Redskins four years ago, popped them into red silk knickerbockers. It is his habit when watching games to run out on the field, annoy officials and abuse the coach for poor judgment. If he gets the Braves, he will supply brighter and more washable uniforms, a roster of new players,, a manager other than his wary friend and onetime roommate Bucky Harris. The prospect of owning football and baseball teams in the same city last week caused Mr. Marshall to discourse...
...Thackeray-"with his warped, middle-class outlook, poor, frightened little mid-nineteenth-century Thackeray"-who gave George IV and his Brighton days their bad reputation in Victorian England. To that novelist George was everything that an English monarch should not be: a bigamist, a liar and a lecher who played practical jokes, gambled, drank heavily, and, as Prince of Wales, with an income of ?70,000, managed to accumulate ?250,000 of debts in three years. Brighton, despite its quaint, un-English charm, its surface respectability, had been the scene of his historic revels, remained so charged with memories...
...sleep on the cabin floor, cooked breakfast over a fire in the front yard, shambled unrecognized into the village store and bought some groceries. Snarled the storekeeper: "One dollar and sixty-five cents-and three cents for the sales tax that that goddam Governor Murray put on the poor man's grub." When indignant citizens stormed Little Rock demanding a special session of the Legislature to repeal Arkansas' new 2% sales tax, Governor Junius Marion Futrell fled to Hot Springs, hopped into a steam bath, cried: "It's cooler in this box than...