Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis Knight had lived in Mississippi all of his 23 years, except for three years in the Navy. He married blonde, blue-eyed Junie Lee Spradley and farmed a poor piece of land. One night the county police arrested him. Knight was a Negro, they said; Junie Lee was white. In Mississippi, that kind of marrying was against...
...criticism in the press, and the ubiquity of the army, which is the main prop of the regime. Spain has 350,000 to 400,000 well-fed, well-treated soldiers under arms, and if the need arose she could send a million trained men to battle, though with poor and insufficient weapons...
...poor Italian immigrants, Bramuglia had come up the hard way. Somehow he got himself through school, and eventually earned a law degree, but as a lawyer he scarcely made expenses. Until he met Colonel Peron in 1943, he worked at a civil-service job that paid 300 pesos ($90) a month. He picked up another 900 pesos as lawyer for the railway workers' unions. Colonel Peron, as Secretary of Labor & Social Welfare, hired Bramuglia as an adviser. Soon he was deep in poli tics. In 1945, he landed in the fat post of Governor of Buenos Aires. The next...
Peronistas and opposition alike respected Bramuglia's integrity, his open dealing. Foreign diplomats found him easy to see and thoroughly a man of his word. Peron liked to boast that Bramuglia was exhibit A in the story of how a poor man could make the grade under his regime...
...cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns...