Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them out to the needy, FSCC will dole out tickets redeemable for food at any grocery. Grocers would do all the buying and selling, cash the tickets at post offices or other local Government agencies. Families would eventually get enough tickets to increase their food consumption 50%; i.e., a poor family spending $16 a month for food would get $8 in tickets. There would be no price controls; retailers and wholesalers will get their usual profits, thereby making the plan politically appealing. Details of the scheme were not worked out last week, but it was reported that the Perkins Plan...
Lady Astor's story was simultaneously corroborated by Playwright George Bernard Shaw, also a Clivedenite,who wrote in Liberty: "You meet everybody worth meeting, rich or poor, at Cliveden. . . . According to English notions all Americans are insanely hospitable. But Lady Astor is phenomenal even among American hostesses. ... I could prove that Cliveden is a nest of Bolshevism. . . . The Astors have become the representatives of America in England; and any attack on them is in effect an attack on America. . . . Never has a more senseless fable got into the headlines...
...article accused of slandering Italy's celebrated crippled poet, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The author of the piece, a young Italian critic who had dug up. much new material on Leopardi, admitted, the poet was "never very strong," but suggested that Leopardi's poor health may have been aggravated by his passion for ice cream...
...sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years' incredible persecution for his faith. Escaping to Russia, he is arrested, exploited, tortured, framed, at last bitterly disillusioned. But before
Whereas University waitresses always know what their weekly paycheck will be, outside waitresses can never be sure. Girls in the Square have been known to make $40 a week, that is, $32, in tips. They think it a poor week when they make no more than...