Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last message from President Coolidge to the Congress was in course of preparation. Topics to be touched on were easily foreseen-the Kellogg Treaty, the Cruiser Bill, Farm Relief, Tariff, Economy, Prosperity, etc. etc. Senator McNary of Oregon had audience at the White House and announced that he was framing an agricultural measure which would, this time, omit features that have so vexed the President and include features which the President approves. Approved features, long known in a general way, were hinted at in a speech last week by President Coolidge to the National Grange as they will probably...
...whose victory was causing people to say, "A Catholic can't be elected President of the U. S.," was published on the front page of the Osservatore Romano, quasi-official Vatican daily-a letter from the late Pope Benedict XV, dated 1920, congratulating Herbert Hoover on U. S. relief efforts in Europe...
...going to study New York's budget, he said, and agricultural relief would be a first consideration of his régime. He spoke then, probably, as a conscientious executive with an eye only to duty...
From the Pope and Il Duce came funds for relief. Mussolini announced that all restoration would be at the expense of the Government...
...fixation is so unshakable that he agrees to be the nominal husband of a girl whom Mr. Crispin wants to torture. An impulsive young Englishman who loves her, plots to rescue her from the Crispin home. He is aided by an ineffectual young American (who supplies the only comic relief by frequent, skillful references to Baker, Oregon, "a place in America," where he has two sisters, Hetty and Jane, "good girls"). Apprehended, the Englishman is bound by the wrists, his back is used as an etching-plate, upon which Mr. Crispin cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness...