Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1934, when first elected to Congress, Hoffman has voted "no" on every bill designed to help the poor, proudly boasting of his opposition to the New Deal and all that it stands for. It has not merely been certain proposals, or the methods of the New Dealers, that this mid-westerner has opposed, but the whole idea of progressive, responsible democracy. Nor does he hate the laboring man simply because he wears overalls. He hates him for daring to ask for better conditions and higher pay. This is the same Hoffman who has voted against every relief bill since...
...only two ways to beat Japan at the present time," de Haas added. "The first would be to drive down through Siberia and attack Japan itself. This would necessitate Russian cooperation, and with our poor showings to date in the Pacific war, I think it is doubtful whether the Russians would agree...
...merit alone, even though it is the better picture. Aside from a week at the Fine Arts in Boston, its only local showing was at the U. T. last Wednesday. Since the producers did not spend any great sums of money exploiting it, the average exhibitor considers it a poor risk and avoids showing...
Apart from its war necessity, borrowing from the poor would prove a great post-war advantage. A national debt concentrated in the hands of the wealthy, as heretofore, is a standing temptation to demagogues, inflation, even repudiation. A debt in which everyone shares (provided everyone helps to service it) is a much healthier burden...
...dancing-partner, a gay young man who nevertheless could scowl like the Leader, could brood like the Leader. He hated degenerate art and had destroyed several canvases with his own hands." Tonder was "a bitter poet who dreamed of perfect, ideal love of elevated young men for poor girls. ... He longed for death on the battlefield. . . . He even had his dying words ready." Only Colonel Lanser "knew what war really is in the long run. Lanser had been in Belgium and France 20 years before and he tried not to think what he knew -that war is treachery and hatred...