Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shocked were newshawks by these lugubrious words, that they gave scant heed to two interesting observations by this rich steelmaster who grew richer out of Wartime manufacture of arms...
...race. Tammany runs Harlem politically, parcels out a few appointive jobs to Negroes. In the district are one Negro police lieutenant, a Negro acting school superintendent, a Negro tax commissioner, two Negro judges, a Negro Civil Service commissioner, two Negro district attorneys. But in elective offices, Harlem has scant representation: two members of the Board of Aldermen, two State Assemblymen. Holding a balance of power last week, Harlem's two Assemblymen managed to defeat Governor Lehman's New York State reapportionment bill which would have given Harlem one more Assemblyman but no State Senator or U. S. Representative...
Calling him "a smart promoter'' and letting it go at that does scant justice to the pertinacious Kentuckian, Euclid M. Covington, who got the idea for This Week some four or five years ago and stuck with it despite discouragement, depression, and doleful predictions of the doubting Thomases...
...After a scant education in London's public schools, Richard Harrison began hopping bells in Detroit hotels. Stage struck, he went to a dramatic school for a short while, later made a precarious living by giving Shakespearean readings to Negro audiences in Canada. The next 40 years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly...
Declaimed Radiorator Father Charles Edward Coughlin: "Jan. 4, 1935 brings to an end the economic principles of individualism. . . . The avowed opponents of human rights-the Liberty Leaguers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers Association - can find scant consolation as their programs for doles, for balanced budgets, for gold standards, for free rein in the industrial field, are indirectly consigned to the wastepaper basket of ancient history. Let them heed the words of the President that 'we have undertaken a new order of things...