Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generous donations of books, pamphlets and manuscripts continue to pour in and these are appreciated as increasing the scope of the collection, but on the other hand they require an augmented staff and cannot remove the necessity for selectively directed purchases. Partial relief in this direction has opportunely appeared through the generosity of the anonymous donor of the $100,000 Florence T. Baker Fund. The income from this Fund is available for the purchase of books and other printed material...
Porto Ricans, elated at getting a President's son to govern them, waited anxiously for him to get through hunting and help them obtain the full measure of cash (six millions) voted them by Congress but not yet paid out, as relief after last autumn's hurricane...
After going scoreless for four innings, Harvard garned six more tallies during its three final innings at bat. Shoddy baseball by the Hilltoppers and concerted bat work on the offerings of two relief twirlers gave the Crimson its markers...
White will probably pitch for the visitors, with Pool being held in the relief role. The former has a reputation for pitching six or seven innings of brilliant ball and weakening in the eighth. Pool has pitched two good games this year, one against Providence College...
Last week Major Berry withdrew as mediator because Gov. Horton had sent into Elizabethton additional troops "under whose guise the rayon plants are being operated." Mayor Berry sided with the strikers and, with a voice like an organ, called for a $100,000 relief fund to carry the strike through to success...