Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate the administration of public funds in the Islands. He turned up screaming with 101 charges of graft, waste and corruption. A refrigerator salesman mysteriously committed suicide but, sifted by two Interior Department investigators, Attorney Baer's 101 charges simmered down to the case of one poor quadroon named Mclntosh who had innocently appropriated $38.40 worth of government cement and lumber in exchange for various odd jobs he had done. Attorney Baer and Police Director Nolan lost their jobs...
...Mississippi Democrat who had lost his seat in the House by running, unsuccessfully, for the Senate. Negro-wise Judge Wilson soon roused the Islanders' fury against Governor Pearson to fever pitch. Looming up as a likely successor if Pearson could be dislodged, he made national news by pouncing on poor Quadroon Mclntosh. Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced the pilferer as "a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country," found him guilty, sentenced him to pay a $200 fine...
Everyone at Wimbledon last week knew what had happened after that: how newspapers had accused Mrs. Moody of poor sportsmanship; how she had spent a year and a half recovering her health; how Helen Jacobs had gone to Wimbledon in 1934 and been unexpectedly beaten in the finals by an English girl named Dorothy Round; how last spring Mrs. Moody had packed up her rackets, sailed for England, only to be eliminated in the semi-finals of a minor tournament that made it clear that she had not quite reached her oldtime form; how Helen Jacobs had finally been presented...
...languages asking for food. They feed these animals hay and grain and meat when what they need and crave is fresh vegetables. Think of all the castor oil they've had to give the elephants because they let them have peanuts and candy and stuff like that. The poor animals are mistreated. They are imprisoned for lifetime in cages that are much too small. My destiny is to help them...
...good Jew is Comedian Eddie Cantor, born Izzy Iskowitch on Manhattan's East Side. He helps Jewish charities raise funds, runs a camp for poor children at Cold Spring-on-Hudson, N. Y., has endowed a fellowship at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Sober and articulate, Eddie Can.tor last week addressed a convention of B'nai B'rith in Los Angeles as follows...