Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anitsa Sheulic's prayer was read at the opening of the American Red Cross's 1938 convention. Last week it was still timely. As the Red Cross, in the 75th anniversary of its founding, got its annual Roll Call for membership well under way. it still found plenty to do in the world...
First to be enrolled in the District of Columbia's drive was 90-year-old Mrs. Peter Voorhees Degraw, only living founder, onetime aide to Clara Barton, organizer of the American Red Cross...
...Three men last week boarded the American Clipper-Ernest J. Swift, Wayne C. Taylor, James T. Nicholson-delegates of the American Red Cross going to Geneva to consult with the League of Red Cross Societies, to learn the plight of the hungry and naked children...
Behind all this nationwide activity sat the woman who has made the American Red Cross her lifework, for 35 years its driving force. In 1904 Clara Barton's Red Cross was gallant, revered, but loosely knit and fundless. That was the year the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House said to a young Washington society leader: "You've been appointed to the executive committee of the Red Cross...
Drinking from one to ten cokes a day is as much a part of college life as saddle shoes and finals. The coke custom is the American collegiate substitute for afternoon tea, it is the excuse for relaxation and conversation. Everyone orders a coke, plain or flavored, usually from lack of originality, force of habit, or because it's his favorite drink...