Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Received and debated a $352,000,000 appropriation bill for the Navy Department (see below...
Soon afterwards the bowler was doffed very gravely in the presence of a Mrs. Charles Cameron. Her husband had had no work for three years, and last week she gave birth to her eighth child. "How do you live?" questioned Edward. "Well, you see," said Mr. Cameron, "I get ten bob [$2.40] a week from the Poor Law Guardians and 18 bob [$4.30] in vouchers for food." Thus nine mouths have been fed on $6.70 a week, and now there is a tenth. This latter aspect of miner-woe was frankly discussed by Bachelor Wales with Father-of-Eight Cameron...
...Nothing would do but that he must hop in with them and rush to thank H. R. H. for stopping at his house. When embarrassed Challenger Frank came apologetically up to Challengee Wales the latter wrung his hand warmly, and said a moment later to a charity field secretary, "See that you do something for that old chap...
Seemingly it was not until the second or third day of such royal slumming that Edward of Wales fully and deeply sensed the misery around him. He reacted by demanding to see the books and pay sheets of several employers, and appeared scandalized when one such sheet showed that a gang of four men, working five shifts, received at the end of the week only 29 shillings...
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