Word: poore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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YOUR INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT PUBLISHER GORDON GRAY [TIME, SEPT. 12] CONTAINS AN ERROR WHICH I REGRET. WHEN THE TWIN CITY SENTINEL CALLED CIGARETTES "COFFIN TACKS," I OBJECTED TO WHAT SEEMED TO ME TO BE A POOR CHOICE OF A HEADLINE, BUT AT NO TIME DID I SUGGEST THAT THE MANAGING EDITOR BE FIRED...
...result of his signal service, he had been mentioned for just about every vacancy on the court that turned up in the past decade. But until Harry Truman broke the news last week, his name had hardly entered the speculation this time. Battle Cry. A son of poor parents, Shay Minton was born 58 years ago in the southern Indiana hill country called the "Knob" district, went to work when he was eight years old. He put himself through Indiana and Yale law schools at the top of his classes, settled in New Albany, Ind. to practice law and enter...
...teachers Jesse met, with their ramshackle schools and pitiful salaries, won his respect. There were old Ethel Henthorne who worked for years in her spare time to get a college degree and finally got it at 70; poor Ann Bush who was forever getting a beating from her pupil Tom Anderson; and the hundreds of other teachers who had worked for nothing during the depression. "I thought [of] these things," writes Jesse Stuart, "and I believed deep in my heart that I was a member of the greatest profession of mankind...
...nastiness is touched off when a poor little orphan (Margaret O'Brien) goes to live with her rich, half-mad uncle (Herbert Marshall). An officious, adder-tongued little minx who detests practically everyone she meets, Margaret soon meets her match. Her crippled cousin (Dean Stockwell) turns out to be the same sort of brat. In the tantrum match that follows, the two youngsters give themselves (and the audience) a crashing good time yowling, screeching and smashing what appears to be a gross of studio crockery...
...first aims of the new organization (set up in May, 1947) was to obtain the admission of 30 percent of poor workmen's and peasants' sons into faculties," the NSA reports. "Today this goal has been achieved. All universities are state universities, and are 'entirely supported' by the state. Fees are in proportion to the income of the student' family...