Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incidental result of this phase of the inquiry has been to reveal the extent to which the illicit liquor traffic has become a means of comparative opulence to many families that formerly were on the records of relief agencies. In one New England industrial town a row of sombre tenements has been adorned by Stutz and Packard cars, purchased with the profits of a new-found illicit livelihood...
...public floor, up spoke Julius Rosenwald pledging $1,000,000. Up spoke Felix Warburg pledging $400,000 (which made the total of his gifts this year to Jewish relief...
...deciding a whole series of controversies including 1) the postal juridiction and munitions de-disposition of Mosul; 2) Polish pots in Danzig; 3) disposition of the unused portion of the Austrian loan and Austrian finances in general; 4) opium control; 5) minorities in Rumania and elsewhere, 6) international relief; 7) slavery...
...king of the late middle ages?his "name-day" was last week fervently sentimentally celebrated by all blind people of France. They of the Quinze Vingts, world's first refuge for the blind, laid a palm at the feet of Founder Louis' statue, lunched with the Franco-American Blind Relief Committee...
...week passed, during which all the dinner-giving organizations of Stockholm vied with each other, in setting succulent dishes before the 625 delegates to the Universal Conference on Life and Work (TIME, Aug. 24, 31). Then the American Near East Relief Association played host. For shelter it provided the best hotel in town. For fare, it served rice, prunes, boiled rice...