Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once the policy of imperialism is admitted right, the wisdom of England's latest move is thrown into sharp relief by the new obstacles strewn in Mussolini's path in the Aegean and Adriatic by Roumania and Jugo-Slavia, obstacles well calculated to turn the attention of the Quirinal toward Egypt. The hand of France opposes Italy here no less infallibly than England elsewhere for its being hidden behind the foreign offices of Bucharest and Belgrade. Co-incident yesterday with the return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news...
...secretary of these new evangelists, in an interview with Mr. Croy, cited with triumph certain polls which have been taken at Dartmouth and Princeton, giving the views of such of the student body as answered the questionaires on the subjects of God and immortality. It is a matter for relief and gratification that such canvasses are not in favor in Cambridge; for whatever one's personal opinions--which at Harvard remain personal--it is not an occasion for pride to be quoted as an ally of those who sponsor the present campaign. The ghosts of Paine and Ingersoll...
Money. The Red Cross relief fund totaled about $14,000,000. Mr. Hoover said that "Government departments" had spent $5,000,000, that railroads, industries and utilities had "expended several millions more as a gift." He asked for $2,000,000 additional contributions to the Red Cross...
This money will be used for immediate relief. For rehabilitation work later on, Mr. Hoover and the Louisiana State Reconstruction Committee organized a special Louisiana credit corporation. Federal Intermediate Credit Banks will re-discount farm loans made by this corporation at a ratio of four to one-which means that the corporation will be able to borrow four times as much money as it raises. Meanwhile, Lewis E. Pierson, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Eugene Meyer, chairman of the Farm Loan Board, began a campaign among Northern businessmen and bankers, asking them to match, dollar...
...Armenians-now no longer apt to be massacred like rats by Turks. They yielded when Admiral Bristol was grimly defending U. S. interests at the- drafting of the Treaty of Lausanne (TIME Aug. 6, 1923 et ante).* They wondered at his prodigious activities in directing U. S. relief among Baron Wrangel's shattered "White Russians" in Constantinople, and at Smyrna after the great fire. All Turks are sure, with proved reason, that Admiral Bristol is their inflexible, understanding friend...