Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spread the cheer. Silver stocks led the market (see p. 17), and the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages hit the highest level of the year. But that was the same level as the other New Deal highs of February 1934 and July 1933 and there, balancing better feeling against poorer figures, the stockmarket hung churning...
...Scotsmen, logical and thrifty, the costly Jubilee amid Depression makes no sense. Scotland's temper is such that George V has canceled as quietly as possible, his announced Jubilee visit to Edinburgh. In , Glasgow's poorer districts many streets are plastered with Communist slogans and to venture there there would would mean a chorus of "Down with the King...
...supports," observed her Apostolic Delegate, "but he does represent a threat to the Church. . . . Some of Calles' actions, such as the Government distribution of lands to the peons and the establishment of minimum wage laws in industry, have won a good deal of sympathy for him among the poorer people. But it still remains a fact that Calles is personally the richest man in Mexico. He owns El Mante, the richest sugar mill in Mexico, worth 10,000,000 pesos; the estate of Santa Barbara, worth 2,000,000; the estate of Soledad de la Mota worth...
...Once a bank clerk like his father, Walter Matthews had been dean of Exeter Cathedral, changed posts after annoying his Bishop by inviting Nonconformists into his pulpit (TIME, July 2). An able philosopher and theologian. Dean Matthews gets $10,000 a year at St. Paul's, will be poorer than he was at Exeter because he must give part of his stipend to his good friend Dean Inge...
...least as long as 85 years ago Westerners called Mexicans "greasers," according to Ruxton's Life Far West, "from their greasy appearance." The name stuck to the poorer class of Mexican, and in that sense TIME characterized Senator Bronson Cutting as "the faithful friend of the lowly 'greaser...