Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enforcement is far from satisfactory. . . . There should be an immediate concentration of responsibility by transfer to the Department of Justice of the functions now lodged in the Prohibition unit in the Treasury. . . . Control of industrial alcohol and legalized beverages should remain in the Treasury. Provision should be made for relief of congestion in the Federal Courts. . . . There should be a codification of the laws relating to Prohibition. ... I would add to these recommendations the desirability of reorganizing the various services engaged in the prevention of smuggling into one Border Patrol under the Coast Guard. ... It is not to be expected...
...Louis & San Francisco R. R.; in Manhattan; of heart failure. He was largely responsible for the irrigation, transportation and agricultural development of the Texas Gulf coast and lower Rio Grande valley. Last year he supported the Hoover ticket when his fellow Democrats refused to take his advice on Farm Relief. Died. Mrs. Mary J. Forrest Fontaine, 84, sister of the famed Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford, Jesse, and Jeffry Forrest; in Dallas, Tex. Died. Mrs. Margaret Stevens, 94, onetime Civil War hospital worker, a founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,* at Pricetown, Ohio. She had six brothers...
...Vance and his native thirst for literature are Halo and Lewis Tarrant, products of the civilized and cosmopolitan world which Mrs. Wharton knows and likes the best. But in this story she has given her favorites the meagerer parts. Vance's honest bluntness is thrown into even bolder relief by their futile sophistication, their self-deluding cleverness...
Occupying a prominent position on the "Index" is the British philosopher's. "What I Believe." That the appearance of Mr. Russell at Symphony Hall yesterday occasioned no great turmoil among the officially righteous brings the unpredictable actions of the censors into sharper relief. The probable contents of a lecture on the faith of an unbeliever should be sufficiently apparent. But no action was taken to restrain the famous philosopher from corrupting Boston's intelligentsia...
...build up Massachusetts and the Nation, so today Harvard graduates form the majority of the committee which is working to make the observance of the founding of the colony an event of national and international significance. The celebration which they plan will only serve to bring into sharper relief the great part that Harvard has played in history...