Word: stepchild
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...President Hoover. No doubt both were somewhat at a loss, for while Mr. Franklin complied with all conditions, Mr. Chapman offered more money. The Board, sympathetic with Mr. Chapman, allowed him to amend his bid, assume full responsibility for S. S. Leviathan instead of treating her as a monster stepchild...
...last week of the Anaconda (Mont.) Standard. As an important State daily it had been anesthetized three years ago, cut to a strictly local circulation of 2,000. Last week witnessed merely its last official gasp: the paper was taken over as a four-page section of its thriving stepchild, the Butte Montana Standard...
Governor Roosevelt has publicly complained that the U. S. treats Porto Rico more like a stepchild than a member of the Federal family. His relief program consists largely of trying to put the jibraros back on the land, to make them selfsupporting. Likewise he would increase the island's industrialization with the aid of ample waterpower. Porto Rico, for instance, produces 600,000 tons of raw sugar per year but lacks a big refinery. Politically Porto Rico wants full statehood (minor voices call for independence) or at least a civil territorial status like Hawaii and Alaska. Porto Ricans were outraged...
...Cambridge School of the Drama is still a stepchild; its attachment to the University should attend the proof of its success. If it manages to satisfy the national honor and still find the Naval Science Department another place to drill, it will be still further on the road to permanent achievement...
Next, fearing that he would leave his wealth to Perry Pickle, the stepchild of Mrs. Trunnion's sister-in-law, Mrs. Trunnion robbed the Commodore and assured him that any legal steps he might make she would frustrate by having him locked up as a lunatic...