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  • And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • Roosevelt later saw poverty's spreading scourge, "millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster (hung) over them day by day .... one-third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished."

    Systemic Failure: Capitalism "Lays an Egg" 2009

  • "I see one-third of our nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished," FDR told a nation whose citizens clearly understood they were all in this together.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Robert Reich 2008

  • "I see one-third of our nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished," FDR told a nation whose citizens clearly understood they were all in this together.

    Obama vs. McCain, and The Four Stories of American Life Robert Reich 2008

  • She was not a typical middle-class girl in expensive clothes who idolized masculine negritude, but an ill-nourished, disturbed young woman who would have gone "for anyone sexy who offered her a cult, even if he'd been as white as milk."

    The Lessons of the Master Buruma, Ian 2008

  • As Roosevelt said, "I see one third of a nation, ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."

    The '30S 2008

  • President Roosevelt was just guessing when he posited that "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished."

    FDR 'Just Guessed' About How to Fight the Depression 2008

  • FDR was born to privilege, but somehow had come to deep compassion for those who were "ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished."

    The Road from FDR to GWB: Reflections After Visiting the Memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the Mall 2007

  • In his new book "A National Party No More," Sen. Zell Miller, the Georgia Democrat who is retiring, says that whereas FDR said, "I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished," today's typical national Democratic leader says, "I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell."

    Dean And Big Differences 2007

  • It's what happens in this modern era when social conditions deteriorate enough to produce what Franklin Roosevelt spoke about in the Great Depression years of the 1930s when he said "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."

    THE US GULAG PRISON SYSTEM - THE SHAME OF THE NATION AND CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY 2006

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