Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR COMMENTS JUDGE PAYNES TESTIMONY CONCERNING RED CROSS RELIEF . . . INFERS BIRMINGHAM HAS ASKED FOR NATIONAL RELIEF WHICH IS ERRONEOUS- STOP WHAT JUDGE PAYNE SAID WAS BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA IS ONLY RED CROSS CHAPTER DOING URBAN ORGANIZED CHARITY AND IS SUPPORTED BY COMMUNITY CHEST STOP IN FAIRNESS TO US PLEASE CORRECT YOUR ERROR IN ANY COMMENTS ON RED CROSS RELIEF YOUR NEXT ISSUE AS WE HAVE NOT ASKED FOR OUTSIDE HELP AND ARE FUNCTIONING SATISFACTORILY UNDER EXISTING CIRCUMSTANCES...
...time when failure by its own action was widely anticipated. Applause rose from the galleries when small, precise Senator George of Georgia declaimed: "Four years more of Herbert Hoover and we'll be fortunate if we don't have to turn the Treasury into a community chest. ... If the Government wants to gamble, it should hire professionals, not amateurs...
...Stump administration has adopted none of the orthodox methods of unemployment relief, claiming the problem was national, not local. It has refused to inaugurate an emergency construction program on the ground that it would only tax the poor. Its $450,000 community chest was exhausted last November. It has claimed credit for relief furnished by the non-Socialist school board which is outside its control...
...physical condition. Last week in Manhattan the Salle d'Armes Vince team won the national three-weapon championship of the Amateur Fencers League of America principally because they were more youthful, in better condition than their experienced opponents. With the foils, against the limited target of a padded chest; with the stiffer French duelling sword or epee, with which hits count when scored on any part of the body; with the sabre in the conventionalized contests that have developed from a ferocious slashing to a technique of no unnecessary movements, they beat the Fencers Club and the New York...
...large sugar-beet estate near Magdeburg, Dr. Browne saw one of Germany's most famed dowsers at work. Covering his chest with a padded leather jacket, the dowser took in his hands a looped steel divining rod, began to pace the ground. Suddenly the loop shot upward, hit him a hard blow on the chest. Continuing, he charted the outlines of the underground stream. Then using an aluminum rod, which he said was much more sensitive, he estimated the depth of the stream. A rod of still another metal indicated by a chest blow that the water was good...