Word: droughts
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Members of the Harvard Instrumental Clubs will play following the talk. Radcliffe students will assist at the tea, which is being held for the benefit of the drought relief. Members of the Fine Arts department and other students of the University will be admitted at half price...
Blessed are they who hunger in the land of Drought, for they shall be told that a great Government feeds the starving in foreign lands...
President Hoover had also changed his position since December, agreed to far more Drought relief than he had originally intended. Last week, through Secretary Hyde, he surrendered to the Senate's primary plan of 'Federal loans to feed the hungry, a proposition he once flayed as ''playing politics with human misery...
...families-about a million mouths. Its $10,000,000 relief drive climbed slowly past the $8,000,000 mark. Rations were being distributed on the basis of 42? per person per week. Still unreported last week was any authenticated case of death of starvation in the Drought area...
...difficulty of negotiating secured Federal loans in the Drought area was demonstrated in Lee County, Ark. where only 22 farmers out of 5,500 had been able to put up collateral to get seed and fertilizer advances from the Government...