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...Insofar as the NRA works to diminish poverty it is worth supporting because there is a direct relation between poverty and crime. The criminal is usually from the poorer classes and being continually oppressed by the rich from childhood, he eventually commits some act against them that brings him before the courts. Once sent to the penitentiary there is little hope for him. No man that goes in comes out improved and ninety per cent of them are recommitted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Darrow Asserts Big Business to Blame For Huge Increase in Nation's Crime | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Fortnight ago the "burley" markets opened. Prices again were down around 12? per lb., with poorer grades even lower. Disgruntled growers became angry. For four years during the 1920's they had a co-operative but it broke up when growers ceased to cooperate. During that time "nightriders" had killed some non-co-operators, destroyed the crops of others, smashed their windows. Kentucky growers threatened to start nightriding again. Governor Laffoon proclaimed a holiday. The Governors of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina followed suit in an effort to do for "burley" what a holiday had done for "bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobaccoliday | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...take thee ... for my lawful wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1,000 Vows | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

That inimitable lunk, Mayor John P. O'Brien, who combines the effrontery of a lamp-post with the insouciance of a glassy-eyed codfish will leave New York the poorer for his passing, not only in the crassly material sense, but spiritually as well. For Honest John has in his own good way lightened the gloom of the morbidly shaded metropolis with the steady beam of a courage which has faced without flinching the unleashed terrors of double negatives, redundant participles, and hopelessly severed infinitives. Before the onslaught of mad sentences without verbs and facts without relevance his head remains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/18/1933 | See Source »

Northern Baptists, 20% to 25% poorer than last year, are launching a "Live It Through" program, also to culminate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritual Recovery | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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