Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of the Red Cross in peace times consists of aiding disabled veterans of the World War and sending immediate relief in cases of disaster or emergency. During the last year vital aid was given in 90 catastrophes ranging from tornado and fire to mine explosion and earthquake. The peace time purpose of this organization is given in the Congressional Chapter; "To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and to apply the same in mitigating the suffering caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great national calamities, and to devise...
From 1914 until 1917, when he entered the United States army, he served in all the warring countries as war correspondent for Colliers, the Associated Press, and the Leslie Weekly. After being discharged from the army in 1919, Mr. Hibben served on a several Russia relief Commissions. He has been decorated with Russian Chevelier Order of St. Stanislas, the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure, and is a member of the Greek Officer Order of the Redeemer...
...pieces and the drawings which have been loaned by the artist himself will remain on exhibition only until the middle of this week. It is believed that this collection, which includes the marble portrait statue of Mestrovic's mother, the bronzed plaster "Memories" and two wood carvings in bas relief, will be put on exhibition elsewhere in this country...
...miners went without some $113,850,000 in pay, and the operators lost the profit on some 55,000,000 tons of anthracite that was not mined, meanwhile having to continue paying their fixed charges. Want began to stalk in the homes of 158,000 miners in Pennsylvania. Relief agencies had to help the miners. In Luzerne, Schuylkill, Lackawanna Counties, 125,000 of whose total population of 893,000 men, women and children are miners, in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Pottsville, Shamokin, severe business depression grasped the entire communities. Meanwhile New England and the northeastern states to a large degree...
...made Commissioner to Montenegro. For his relief work in Serbia the Red Cross of that country decorated him and later Prince Alexander of Serbia honored him with the Order of the White Eagle, making him a Commander in the Order of St. Sava III. For his work for the Belgium forces he was made an officer de Fordre de la couronne...