Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...killed numbered 248, among them Professor Alizago. The 93 injured were cared for by the Red Cross, which rushed aid from San Jose, five and one-half miles away, and started a subscription for the relief of the many widowed or orphaned by the wreck...
...play possesses on unusual feature. The man who in the first act is very distinctly a comic relief character, turns out to be most important before the end. In the part of Dr. Peck, Mr. Norman Cannon, of austere and hawk-like countenance, is well cast (except that he doesn't look like the football player he is supposed to be) and he grows more and more likable as the play goes on. But even there if we'd been the girl, we'd never have fallen in love with him, or filled his pipe for him, either...
...back from the government treasury an amount three times as great as the Dawes loan? If in their present needy condition they are willing to do this, they show a loyalty to rank and property strangely incongruous in a socialist republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will then sigh with relief to find their worst bugbear so completely discounted in Germany. And political students who question the strength of Republican sentiment in Germany will have their doubts settled by the greatest popular referendum since Napoleon III staged his coup d'etat...
...fifth committee has control of the relief work, University sanitoriums and all kinds of permanent relief. During the disastrous period of 1919-1922 the the demands of emergency relief were indeed met chiefly by the European agency of the Student Friendship Fund...
...funds is vital and grows more so as the ranks swell. Money is coming in in contributions of all sizes from unions, organizations and individuals all over the country. By means of this each family is given $5 to $10 a week in food and clothing through the relief stores. This pittance is barely enough to keep them alive but their spirit is indomitable. The ranks realize that this struggle means either life or death to them and after eight weeks they show no signs of weakening...