Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fall clothing collection was held as usual, and was very capably handled by H. K. Thayer '35. The Spring collection, in charge of B. L. Kilgour '27, is being held this week. The following places received boxes of clothing: Industrial Aid Society, Family Welfare Society, Cambridge Welfare Union, and Cushing Academy. Besides the 1522 articles of clothing collected, there were 440 books and two tons of magazines. About 90 text books were placed in the loan library, and 150 were sent to the American Merchant Marine. Besides this, 200 obsolete editions from the Text Book Loan Library were sent...
...Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Army selected as his chief military aid (succeeding Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, resigned) Engineer Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, holder of the D. S. M. and the French Croix de Guerre with Palms, a Commander of the Legion of Honor, military attache at Peking since...
...public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection and rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void." - The House of Lords has no effective power over money bills so certified by the Speaker of the House...
...episode dates from the triumphant election of Calles as President−itself a symbol of two ideals: Socialism, Nationalism. Here, thought Joaquín Pérez, an ex-Roman Catholic priest, was the opportunity for a new church, a nationalistic church, but nonetheless an apostolic church. With the aid of the "Knights of Guadalupe" and apparently with the approval of some of President Calles' cabinet ministers, Joaquín Pérez founded the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Mexico. He fixed his eyes on a church edifice in Mexico City, La Soledad. With the permission...
...articles this year will go to the relief of European students and to local charities, such as the Family Welfare Society of Boston, the Cambridge Welfare Union, the Industrial Aid Society of Boston, and the Salvation Army. The books and magazines will be given, as usual, to the Merchant Marine, except for textbooks, which will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library...