Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Leyden on the Rhine circa 1606, youngest son of a prosperous miller. His four elder brothers all became poor cobblers and millers. His parents soon assigned Rembrandt to something better, gave him a year at the University of Leyden before he brought home a pile of drawings, said he was determined to be a painter...
...Abelardo Rodriguez Market, covering four blocks of Mexico City's slum section, was finished last year and named for Mexico's immensely wealthy President Rodriguez. Besides being one of the world's largest markets, it is a community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action...
...careers which reached their tragic peak in the fateful year 1929, none had been more exciting than Ray Long's. A poor boy from a small town in Indiana, he had quickly made his mark in the newspaper business as "boy editor" of the Cincinnati Post and Cleveland Press. Then he splashed brilliantly into the fiction magazine field, running through the spectrum of Red Book, Bine Book, Green Book. On Armistice Day 1918, William Randolph Hearst succeeded, after several years' dickering, in hiring Editor Long for his Cosmopolitan. In the eleven years that followed. Editor Long made...
Boss Pendergast's formula for treating the people right: "I am honest with the people. I gave them a good government. I take care of the poor. I give out all the jobs I can find. I never ask a man his politics, but I do him a good turn if I can. When I have treated the people right, they will vote my way on election day-that is, 75% of them will. The other 25% aren't worth bothering about...
...last speaker. The assassination of Tsar Nicholas was a terrible shock to him, and he felt that Clemenceau was endangering the monarchical principle by dethroning the princes of Central Europe. Suspecting slights, he felt that Foch showed wretched taste by remarking that he had gone to Italy to rescue "poor King Victor Emmanuel by the skin of his teeth." Once he told his aide-de-camp, as they started for a celebration, that there would be no crowd, since his subjects did not like him. The crowd was large, but when the aide tried to cheer Albert by calling attention...