Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it comes to educating the U. S. Child, the national government in the person of Commissioner of Education George Frederick Zook is a Dutch uncle who can give advice but no cash (TIME, Sept. 18). But when the U. S. Child needs food, clothing or shelter the Government is a generous, ingenious New England Auntie, with Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins acting the part. U. S. Children's Bureau investigators last week told her that perhaps 6,000,000 wretched U. S. children were beginning school undernourished. Miss Perkins at once summoned a conference of doctors, dietitians, educators...
...Exchange, Mr. Untermyer said: "It is as unsportsmanlike and contemptible as any performance of a great State of which I have ever seen or heard. ... If the Stock Exchange so much as dares to put through this tax-dodging scheme to help deprive the unemployed of food and shelter it will only hasten the day of Federal regulation. . . ." Mayor O'Brien paid a stentorian tribute to himself and friends, declared they never wavered in their duty to "the great suffering masses of the City...
Havana dock workers announced that they would not unload cargoes from "certain places, those countries giving hospitality to Machado. ... In this way they will make it impossible for him to take shelter in any place, making life for him as impossible as he made it for so many thousands. . . ." Alarmed were the Associated Potato Shippers of New Brunswick who had expected a fine export business this season with Cuba whose 1933 potato crop is nearly...
...When he is asked to put his address in visitors' books in England he has to write 'ohne' (without). The Huns have stolen his savings, plundered his place of residence and even taken his beloved violin.* How proud this country must be to have offered him shelter at Oxford...
...years Father Divine held lavish "tables" (free feasts) at Sayville, a Long Island summer resort. He fed all comers as much as they wanted and as often. He had three big houses to shelter his following, some of them whites. No one knew precisely where the $30,000 yearly overhead came from except Father Divine, who explained that it came from Divine Providence. But many a Manhattan cook had sent him small contributions, and from Negroes for whom he found work a tithe was forthcoming. He was run out of Sayville last year, fined $500 and sentenced to a year...