Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whose principal duty is to trudge from house to house peddling small policies and collecting 10?, 25? or 50? a week from a clientele too poor or too feckless to pay by the year." (The underlining is mine...
While New Yorkers watched their crusading District Attorney Thomas Dewey expose a gambling racket that preys on the pennies of the poor, Chicagoans were last week being treated by their State's Attorney Thomas Courtney to a more de luxe gambling crusade. Shuttling across the sprawling city, Mr. Courtney's ax squads demolished 19 handbook (horse-race betting) offices. Other gambling dens closed their doors in fear, or installed cheap furniture and carried on furtively...
Visitors to Moscow report that a few Russians whose love of fun-* is greater than their discretion are now saying: "Isn't it too bad, Comrade? They say our beloved leader has lost his last friend and the poor man has had to start shooting mere acquaintances...
Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven...
...Josephs in Sullivan County, N. Y. is a bosky, 2,000-acre camp, one of the largest of its kind in the U. S., where 1,200 poor Roman Catholic boys and girls from the New York Archdiocese spend their summers, where Dominican nuns study and where Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, well-beloved Archbishop of New York, takes his summer ease. George MacDonald, rich Catholic layman, papal marquis, and friend of the Cardinal, gave St. Josephs a $5.000 pavilion on Lake St. Dominic. In that pavilion last week, Marquis MacDonald, Cardinal Hayes, three bishops, many a monsignor, priest...