Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Floods in China made millions of people homeless, drowned some 50,000 persons, submerged tens of thousands of villages. So ran a report from Shanghai...
France has its Louvre, Britain its National Gallery, but "the homeless masterpieces of the U. S." have nowhere to hang. The outcry for a national gallery at Washington has already resulted in the subscription of $10,000 to pay the architect's bill. Now the drive has begun in earnest, Congress having donated the site. The drive is conducted by 350 branches of the American Federation of Arts...
...work of clearing up the débris, caused by the great earthquake. (TIME, Sept. 10, Sept. 17, Sept. 24), is now well under way. All the refugees are under temporary cover, but Tokyo has 530,000 homeless persons for whom to provide more permanent quarters before the Winter...
...brought about by law. It is proposed in England that twenty-five per cent of all fortunes above a certain figure be confiscated for the benefit of the Government; and the English Government is greatly in need of assistance, because of bonuces to the unemployed, providing homes for the homeless, and subsidies for reducing the price of food. The old way was for a mob to appear in front of a rich man's house, set it on fire, and shoot him as he ran out. Then the rioters looted the place, and carried off such of the rich...
...world before the war. Pick up your papers almost any day, and read of the countless thousands subsisting on grass and roots in Russia, and of the famished thousands on the bleak islands of Greece and on the coast of the Aegean. Never were there so many homeless people as wander today seeking a place where they may lay their heads. Can we say that, in this so called "new world", womanhood and childhood is more respected and more loved? I fear not. The public reads great figures telling of the number of women outraged in Smyrna, of the countless...