Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Costs. The budget has been thrown out of balance and the Government's expenses for the year were last week $421,345,000 in excess of revenue.* As an example, the cost of poor relief mounted $29,000,000 beyond expectations. The miners themselves lost $325,000,000 in wages; and are now forced to accept $12 a week and less per man. The loss on curtailed coal production was $480,000,000. Of losses to allied industries the leading railroads suffered $125,000,000, shipping $50,000,000 more; and the steel industry was so hard hit that...
...studied constitutions and their law, practicing the latter in the highest U. S. courts on many important occasions; that I headed Jewry's delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and was instrumental in obtaining recognition for racial minorities; that I had settled strikes, served New York Governors, headed Jewish relief drives, and been for some time president of the American Jewish Committee, of Temple Emanu-El, and chairman of the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Jew who 'transcends the limitations of labeled Judaism ... an ambassador from Israel to the people of the world...
...elected President of Harvard College. His ideas were known to be very advanced and the Board of Overseers at first rejected his election, subsequently consenting to it by divided vote. He says, "I had not taken much interest in the discussion over me and was content to find relief from the sorrow at home in strenuous labor at the Institute of Technology. When, however, my election as president had been completed--unexpectedly to me--I turned at once to the functions of the President and the needs of Harvard University, and in a few weeks had become absorbed...
...blamed for failure to perform the impossible, the agriculture regions are entitled to know that they have its constant solicitude and sympathy." If the farmers' desire for assistance is "matched by an equally sincere and candid consideration of the different remedies proposed, a sound measure of relief ought to result...
Concerning taxation, the President disapproved of permanent reduction and favored temporary relief in the form of refunds on 1927 payments...