Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before we left the Executives of the American Red Cross had taken up their headquarters in Memphis and were handling the relief work. Such is the organization that has been developed and so many have been the things that have been done for the relief work, that where as several years ago the deaths would very probably have mounted into the hundreds, and probably in other floods did number even thousands, in this present situation the casualty list is now something under one hundred people...
...spite of this tremendous local problem, however, the Memphis people carried on their business activities, the necessary relief activities, and their program of entertainment for the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...Relief of Overpopulation
...drive was carried on for the benefit of the Near East Relief to clothe the destitute Turks, Syrians and Armenians. It is striking in view of this fact that the majority of articles contributed are of the decorative rather than the useful kind...
...ordered all its 5,000 members to refuse to work on stone cut by these corporations. Last week the Supreme Court reversed the decision of a lower court; ruled that the union was restraining trade in violation of the anti-trust laws, that the stone corporations were entitled to relief by injunction. Associate Justices Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the two great liberals of the Supreme Court, dissented vigorously from this decision. Said Justice Brandeis: "They [the union members] were innocent alike of trespass and of breach of contract. They refrained from violence, intimidation, fraud and threats...