Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vein was surprisingly light and fanciful coming from a chunky man so popularly associated with columned statistics, inanimate commodities and worried relief work. It postulated the pursuit of fish as a right rendered inalienable to "all men (and boys)" by the Declaration of Independence. It considered the mysteries and incantations of fishing, from spitting on angleworm segments to affixing trout cosmetics and bass liniments. It dwelt on piscatorial beatitudes in a manner that quickly revealed Mr. Hoover as twice the fisherman Calvin Coolidge is said to be, and in a style that revealed Mr. Hoover as a reader of Poet...
With the Mississippi River steadily falling, with New Orleans generally considered safe from disaster, it last week became possible to estimate with some degree of accuracy the extent of what Flood Relief Director Herbert C. Hoover has called the "greatest peacetime calamity" in U. S. history...
...flood. Deaths by states: Arkansas, 59; Mississippi, 42; Louisiana, 9; Tennessee, 2; Illinois, 2. This list includes only positively verified deaths. Unofficial figures have put the death total at from 350 to 500. Arkansas and Mississippi were not flooded so extensively as Louisiana, but were stricken before organized relief work could get under...
Refugees. Red Cross relief has been given to some...
...Barbee '28, the leading moundsman of the Crimson staff, is slated to pitch. The choice of his opponent is uncertain. Fons, star hurler who was roughly handled in a relief role in the first Holy Cross tilt, may draw the assignment, although indications point toward the selection of Dobens, a southpaw pitcher who plays in the outfield when he is not occupying the box, Dobens appeared in the ninth inning of the first game, and did not get a fair chance to display his wares against Harvard. Last Saturday at New Haven he shut out the strong Yale nine...