Word: sufferer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should make loans to the whole people. . . . We must not forget the millions of hard-working families in our country who are striving to pay their debts. They, in the last analysis, must bear the burden of increasing Government aid and taxes. It is not the rich who suffer. When we take employment and taxes from our people, it is the poor who suffer...
...kernels of corn for the hungry child, the drippings from the mouth of the merciful mule! . . . These people are going to suffer beyond the power of human language to portray. . . . When did these picayunish objections to feeding the hungry first appear? They appeared when the income tax payers became afraid of an increase in taxes...
Comrade Menzhinsky is believed to suffer from ulcers of the stomach, and his complexion is sallow. He prefers to work, as so many Soviet officials do, very late at night, and his appointment calendar is always full of things for him to do at three and four a. m. His temper is easily aroused, but he appears to take sincere pride in his work. His job, as he conceives it, is to "Make the World Safe for the World Proletariat." His attitude is as universal as that of the Pope. Wherever upon the face of the earth Capitalism...
...Capitalist countries there are crises of unemployment, poverty of the masses ?incurable diseases of Capitalism. Our system does not suffer from these diseases, because the power is in the hands of the working class; because we gather resources rationally and correctly and distribute them to all branches of national economy...
Along with Will Rogers, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Calvin Coolidge, Mary Pickford, last week President Hoover made a radio appeal in behalf of the $10,000,000 Red Cross Drought Relief fund. Said he:"It is unthinkable that any of our people should suffer from hunger or want. The heart of the nation will not permit it. It is to the heart of the nation that I am appealing tonight. I urge all of my fellow countrymen to contribute promptly and in accordance with their means" It was generally agreed that the President's speech sounded more like reading-from...