Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landowner and tenant classes, he had already received a check for $100 and a pedigreed Jersey bull calf. The sweepstakes prize meant that he had outstripped 27,000 other small holders and croppers in meeting the South's biggest agricultural problem: how to make the poorer farm families self-sufficient. Asked what he would do with his $600, Farmer Majure mused: "Guess I'll buy some more land to go with my 40 acres...
...remodeling, the Council recommended: extending coverage immediately to some 2.800,000 ineligibles, including seamen, bank employes, and employes of non-profit religious and educational institutions, and by 1940 to 12,000,000 farm laborers and domestics; a study of the "administrative and financial problems" involved in Social Security for "self-employed" citizens, principally the nation's 32,000,000 farmers...
Meanwhile, all "stateless" Ukrainians in Germany were asked to register at a recently opened Ukrainian "confidential office." The number of Ukrainian broadcasts from German stations increased and throughout Ukrainian districts appeared new radio sets ostensibly supplied by Nazi agents. Ukrainian deputies to the Polish Parliament dared to ask for "self-government" for their districts...
...Today he is at the peak of his mental and physical vitality. . . . The only thing old about John Garner is his philosophy. He still believes in the old-fashioned virtues of economy, thrift and self-reliance. . . . We do, however, plant our feet firmly upon Democratic and American tradition in respect to terms of service...
...world's most musical families, the von Trapp family is also one of the world's most self-sufficient. Their Austrian peasant clothes, which they never exchange for citified dress, are all homemade. They even weave some of the cloth themselves. Says ample, athletic Frau von Trapp: ''We are having the time of our lives in God's own country...