Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article in Jan. 23 TIME arouses my desire for expression. Five women visit Governor Lehman. The poor boys never had a chance. "Poverty, slum life, marijuana, liquor." Shades of Theodore Dreiser! If man enjoys free will, he is a responsible being. He knows what he is doing and does it anyway. He is a double menace to society-in plan and in deed. Hang him, If man does not enjoy free will, he is not responsible. He is then a monster-a product of a Frankenstein civilization. Destroy him-before he breeds...
...durned good at the job he was aimin' to do. Mebbe it's because we all know that Jesse warn't really a bad man and a killer. What could a feller do when them blasted railroads robbed you of your lawful own, and then killed your poor old mother? And mebbe it's just because he was the cussin'est, dad-blame-dest, boldest buckaroo which ever come from Missouri...
...your article you mention that when studio audiences appeared in full dress, their starched shirt bosoms bounce sounds back, being poor absorbers...
...Henry quit Guaranty in 1931, having quietly acquired a financial background that fitted him to handle not only the fortune he had inherited from his father-in-law but other big sums that came under his control. He became president of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (endowment $20,000,000), a trustee of Cooper Union and council member of New York University, a director of Texas Co. and the U. S. Trust Co., acting president of New York Hospital, committeeman in many a charity drive...
...should be obliged to pay an Old Age Insurance Tax, in order to provide him with a theoretical Old Age Pension when he reaches the age of 65, and you are greeted with a wan, incredulous smile suggesting that you have made a creditable effort to perpetrate a rather poor joke. Yet this is exactly what a solemnly paternalistic government at Washington, probably unintentionally it is true, has decreed...