Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Halterophera Capitata. The Board has done some preliminary relief work on the citrus fruit situation in Florida where the ravages of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Halterophera capitata) had created an acute local problem (TIME, May 6 et seq.). Two competing fruit cooperatives appealed for the Board's help. The Board sent them away with a promise of help after they had merged their efforts, eliminated duplication, become representative of all Florida fruit growers in trouble...
Secretary Hyde. Prime issue in the campaign, farm relief has continued a prime activity of the new administration When President-Elect Hoover summoned Arthur Mastick Hyde to dine with him last winter in Florida (a social summons which greatly perturbed Mr. Hyde because he had no evening clothes with him) Mr. Hoover offered him the post of Secre- tary of Agriculture with the warning that it would be one of the hardest and busiest in the new Cabinet. Mr. Hyde reluctantly accepted with that understanding...
...wish, however, to have any misunderstanding of our actions and therefore we shall not lay these keels until there has been opportunity for a full consideration of their effect upon the final agreement for parity, although our hopes of relief from construction lie more largely in the latter years of the program...
...feared actual War. But the Coolidge Naval Limitation Conference had broken down (TIME, Aug. 15, 1927); and Congress had passed what the British press called a Big Navy bill (TIME, Feb. 20, 1928). Therefore last week millions of Britons of every party-Labor, Liberal, Conservative-breathed fervent relief as the armament-race demon was definitely scotched. The three chief scotchers were President Herbert Clark Hoover, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes-an engineer, a Socialist and a lawyer. Engineer Hoover has called for the invention of a scientific "yardstick" to gauge the relative strengths...
Miss Anna W. Pennypacker, daughter of the late Samuel W. Pennypacker (onetime [1903-07] Governor of Pennsylvania), was arrested when police raided a meeting of the Workers' International Relief in Philadelphia. Released the next morning she said: "I went to the meeting because I was interested. I would not have believed it possible that this could have happened in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty. My ancestors came to America over 200 years ago in the cause of freedom and I thought surely we had it in this good old Quaker City...