Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question as to whether the American people will maintain the spirit of charity and mutual self help." But the President showed this much willingness to compromise: "If the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suffering, I will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government. . . . I have faith such a day will not come." Later President Hoover did compromise with Congress on Drought Relief...
...daily. Last week, after nearly three weeks' appeal for the $10,000,000, receipts totaled $4,883,159. Over the radio Chairman Payne pleaded: "Drought presses slowly. There is nothing in it to quicken the emotions- unless one sees with his own eyes the gaunt hunger and hopelessness of those affected...
Along with Will Rogers, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Calvin Coolidge, Mary Pickford, last week President Hoover made a radio appeal in behalf of the $10,000,000 Red Cross Drought Relief fund. Said he:"It is unthinkable that any of our people should suffer from hunger or want. The heart of the nation will not permit it. It is to the heart of the nation that I am appealing tonight. I urge all of my fellow countrymen to contribute promptly and in accordance with their means" It was generally agreed that the President's speech sounded more like reading-from...
...proselyting in Rome. Methodists and Baptists were the "guilty" ones (TIME, July 14). Last week he again expressed his vexation against "even more intense, vast and impudent Protestant propaganda, sometimes open and reasoned, sometimes subtle and deceitful. . . . Advantage is being taken of ignorance and simplicity, coupled with misery and hunger." Proselyting by non-Catholics is illegal in Italy, whose State religion is Roman Catholicism. Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, once a vigorous now a discreet disbeliever, last week said he would soon reply to this invective. Mixed Marriage...
Overture is the posthumous play of William Bolitho (Ryall), a journalist whose hunger for ideas led him to attempt expression of baffling concepts. He died last June at Avignon, France, of peritonitis following an appendectomy which a War-time injury had made risky. While a lieutenant in the British Army, he and 15 companions were buried alive in a trench after a mine explosion. His companions died, he was unconscious for several weeks, hospitalized for a year. His play is in many ways characteristic of his life: tragic, bursting with inarticulated thought. The scene is laid in post-War Germany...