Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressional hearings on flood relief having at last terminated, it looked as though legislation might soon ensue (see p. 9). President Coolidge sent for Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and Davis (of War); for Major General Jadwin, Chief of Engineers; for Representative William E. Hull of Illinois, outspoken advocate of a 100% Federal program. After much conferring, the President let it be known that he might let up a bit on his insistence that the flood-region States pay 20% of the cost of their protection...
...more commendable in the Democratic Club that it has made successful efforts to bring to the University prominent political leaders to speak on important issues. That there is an ever-ready audience for such speakers has already been evidenced. Absence of undergraduate politics comes as grateful relief to observers of American colleges of today; but a popular course in national politics, especially when in spired by the students themselves, performs a worthwhile function in under graduate life...
...this would be a rather lugubrious picture, a poser in justifying the ways of God to man, if it were not for the joy and gladness which it must bring to all the good people of Boston and Cambridge. Tradesmen of the Square breathe a sigh of relief and replace the Kollege Kut Klothes in their window with unmatched suits and complements of a more sober hue. The period of depression is over. The college boys are back, and better to have long-running bills than no business...
Lucien Lelong: Gowns of intricate cut, moulding and revealing the curved lines of the figure, executed in subdued light shades. Said M. Lelong, last week: "Woman returns to the elegant, poised, long-limbed, distinguished figure. She abandons with relief the bony, jazzy flapper figure, evoked by the aftermath of War hysteria...
...Chang Tsung-chang has seized foodstuffs sent to relieve the spreading famine in Shantung and Chihli. The "War Lords" have, more over, complete command of the railways and canals, thus increasing the difficulty of getting U. S. food shipments through intact to starving civilian Chinese. In such circumstances famine relief can be only a desperate stop-gap measure, which must try to save simply "as many lives as possible" until China settles down politically, a process sure to require many heart-breaking years...