Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mims was "particularly encouraged" by the widespread political interest shown in the last election by "every Tom, Dick, and Harry . . . rich man, poor man, beggar...
...young man named Francis R. Wilcox last week sailed from Manhattan for Europe to do something about the prime paradox of U. S. farming-that farmers are poor because they produce so much. Vice President of Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., Francis Wilcox is one of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace's export experts...
Specifically, he proposed to have some of the 1,600,000 bales of cotton which the Government holds as collateral for loans to producers processed into dry goods and sold at prices far below the retail market. The system, if it worked, would provide cheap cotton goods for the poor, employment for cotton workers, an outlet for surplus stocks...
Henry Woodfin Grady, eloquent editor of the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s, was the first great promoter of an "industrial South." Day after death cut short his campaign at 39-December 23, 1889-a boy was born to the poor but genteel Weaver family in Eatonton, Ga. Like many another Southern family, they named their child Henry Grady. Today Promoter Henry Woodfin Grady's vision of an industrial South is finally approaching reality and Henry Grady Weaver is chief promoter of a new industrial concept. He is head of the Customer Research Staff of General Motors Corp...
...flip some papers, peers through a cloud of smoke with his one good eye (he has been blind in his right eye since birth). Likable and expansive, he talks incessantly, wrinkles his nose when amused, which is often. Though his job is listening to the public, he is a poor listener personally. Visitors have a hard time getting a word in edgewise but rarely mind because the Weaver conversation is equipped not only with a store of fresh ideas but with an incredible volume of Negro stories which he tells in a nasal Georgia drawl...