Word: indigentes
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> Cherubic Calvin Benham ("Beanie") Baldwin, protege of Henry Wallace, began working at Farm Security Administration (then Resettlement Administration), in 1935. He spent $1½ billion trying to put 1½ million indigent U.S. farm families on their feet.
Morris Bagby hired the finest artists but spared his audiences heavyweight music. Lurking behind the curtain, he gauged the applause; a number which did not get a great big hand never reappeared on his programs. After every Musical Morning he gave a lunch for 60 guests, deftly shuffling dowagers, younger...
A new era began for Britain's press one day in 1896 when two Harmsworth brothers, sons of an indigent London barrister, started the Daily Mail. First of Britain's great papers for the masses, it made the Harmsworths first of a fabulous line of British press lords...
Handsome, bespectacled, studiously slangy Father Rice, 31, helped found the Catholic Radical Alliance in Pittsburgh on May Day 1937. This somewhat over-named organization threw its weight to C.I.O., got into many a picket line. It also opened St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, in a dirty, barnlike, abandoned...
2) In Food for Thought an indigent young professor, almost parted from his wife, his sons, his frowsy household, by a first flirtatious glimpse of suburban high life, is cured because he has a bad time at a high life dinner.