Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander M. Kohut president of the World Congress of Jewish Women. Reason: the Hoover relief work in Europe...
...slowly dawned on the audience that in an indirect, personal but shrewdly purposeful way he was making it appear that the Democratic Nominee, because of his specific proposals in connection with water power, farm relief, prohibition and the tariff, stood in general for "a European philosophy . . ., state socialism," while he, the Republican, stood for "the American system of rugged individualism . . . diametrically opposed." It was a shrewd thing to try to do in the financial capital of the U. S. But it was a difficult speech to grasp. It seemed to overshoot the mark...
...sent Governor Bilbo a long, long telegram last week. He protested that Governor Bilbo, if quoted correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour of the four months while he was engaged...
...registrars stood firm. Only a modicum of relief in special cases was expected from the County election board...
...Gildea '31, substitute center who has been out of active work with an injury suffered during the opening days of practice this fall, will not be ready for service until next week. A slight relapse in his condition has blasted all hope that he might do relief duty against thte Hanoverians. Other injured men are S. C. Burns '29, F. S. Davis '30, and W. R. Harper '30. The former two will be back in the lineup sometime next week, while Harper is expected to resume his regular berth today. He was in uniform yesterday but merely followed along with...