Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among its recent accomplishments, the Film Service has almost completed a set of films for steering the eyes of poor readers to increase their reading speed...
...frank examination of the profit system in the spring of 1933 showed it to be in collapse; but substantially everybody in the United States, in public office and out of public office, from the very rich to the very poor, was as determined as was my Administration to save...
Overseer of the Poor in Hoboken for 42 of his 74 years was bluff, beefy Harry L. Barck. He thought during Depression that the State let the "Relief trust" turn public charity into a racket. Two years ago, when New Jersey turned administration of relief over to its municipalities, he proceeded to act on this belief by cutting Hoboken's Relief rolls from 7,000 clients to 360. Tales were borne to the State capital at Trenton about Mr. Barck bawling out applicants, refusing to buy milk for families with small children. Poormaster Barck's friends retorted that...
...Hoover Commission, leery of Federal control of the schools, vetoed Federal aid, even though it found some sections of the country too poor to afford a decent minimum of schooling. But Depression dramatized the "glaring inequalities" in U. S. educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile...
...breathlessly, nor dewey-eyed, but merely out of curiosity. "Rags are more than riches when worn for virtue's sake" is the moral of "City Girl," a drab tale of seduction in wicked old New York. Phyllis Brooks in the title role does nothing to better a deplorably poor picture...