Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merits of a $500,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. as requested by the President. The Appropriations Committee reported out its deficiency measure. In the Senate the Agriculture Committee approved a proposal by Montana's Wheeler, to turn over an undetermined amount of Farm Board wheat for U. S. hunger relief...
Part of the cultural value of the House plan is that by removing all physical limitations on the student it gives him every chance to concentrate on getting an education. Making provision for the eternal and relentless hunger which traditionally overcomes the undergraduate about midnight will remove the last barrier which separates a man from having every possible opportunity for tranquil study...
...hunger marchers" went to the White House, were peaceably turned away at its gates. They ended their demonstration in front of the American Federation of Labor office, there to bedevil President William Green...
Though Congress ignored the "hunger marchers," the problem they represented was No. 1 on the Congressional Work Calendar...
...have to tell, their usefulness will cease." In 16 chapters, two volumes, 924 pages, he takes a quick, keen look at the economic world-scene, comes to the melioristic conclusion that "this adventure may continue and our race survive." Some of the chapter-headings : The Conquest of Distance; of Hunger; of Climate; How Goods are Bought and Sold; Why People Work; How-Work is Paid for and Wealth Accumulated ; The Governments of Mankind and Their Economic and Military Warfare. Up-to-date, Mr. Wells has included a section on The Suspension of the Gold Standard by Great Britain...