Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zweite" where he belongs. I was glad to use bullets, in 1918 to endeavor putting him off his throne and I wish I could have used a ballot in 1926 to deprive him of the riches and property which are not his by right and use them for the relief of the poor German people who need...
William M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, listened to mutterings from the Corn Belt, which did not glorify the Administration's farm relief attitude; spoke before the American Institute of Co-operation in St. Paul...
...last Congress that the details involved with the chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee were irritating and asked to be relieved of that responsibility, though he would continue as a member. In all probability he will be succeeded by Senator McNary, author of the wrecked and wrecking farm relief bill...
...sword of Chang hangs over all Manchuria. The luxury of his robber-baron court is set off in opulent relief by the stark barbaric cruelty of his oppressive military régime. While the pen of Wu traces not seldom such poems as are expected from a Chinese gentleman, Chang scorns a lighter toy than his automatic pistol. He has been known to remark to a passing stranger: "Your face seems not unfamiliar. But I thought I ordered you beheaded last year...
...Farm relief legislation is dead. So are chances for Republican control of the next Congress," said Democratic Publicity Director G. Hunter Osborne. The first is true enough, and as for the second...