Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pipe was secondhand. The same troops, in fighting over the same terrain last spring in the War of Farm Relief, had laid it down as a means of pumping U. S. cash to the farmers. When they were driven out of the lowlands, they carried their Export Debenture pipe along with them in retreat. Now it was down again, by a larger vote than ever before...
...reporters Architect Warren wrathfully snorted: "The greater share of the money Mr. Hoover sent consisted of the residue of the Belgian Relief Fund, which by the will of the donors already belonged to the Belgian people...
...every other Philadelphia pitcher was sick or knocked out of the box, did not reckon on an odd understanding between Ehmke and Manager Connie Mack. Before the regular season ended Manager Mack sent Ehmke to scout the Cubs. He told a friend in confidence that though Ehmke had needed relief in each of the only two games he won for the Athletics this year, he would let him start if Ehmke said he wanted to. "He has one good day a year, and he knows when it's coming." Amazed, the Chicago rooters saw Pitcher Ehmke's easy...
...better to aid-the-farmer, President Hoover last week exercised power given him last winter in the Farm Relief Act and transferred to the Federal Farm Board the entire personnel, equipment and functions of the Department of Agriculture's division of co-operative marketing...
...wife never forgets restraint. Certain episodes exhibit flagrancies of aste. But when the daughter (Maisie Darrel) confesses her troubles to a stalwart boy who wants her love (Robert Douglas), the scene trembles with tragedy and gallantry. And a parody of court procedure is introduced which provides peerless comic relief...