Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the more striking bindings shown is one of an old manuscript, in which is an ivory has relief surrounded with a heavy studding of jewels...
Barbee's two victories give him an average of 887, with eight games won and one lost. The lone loss charged against the Junior twirler was the first engagement with Georgetown at Washington, when he, as relief pitcher, allowed a pinch-hitter to drive in the winning run of a 7 to 6 contest. The four-hit shutout of last week avenged this stain on his record...
Said Herbert C. Hoover authoritative, conservative, in charge of flood relief: "There was never in our history such a calamity as this flood, which before it ends will have, I fear, involved more than half a million of our people, creating a problem of relief and rehabilitation the magnitude of which it is scarcely possible to exaggerate. I sometimes wonder if the people of our country realize just what this calamity is. Do they know that before the flood recedes more than half a million Americans, men, women and children, will have seen their homes swallowed up in the deluge...
...last session of Congress closed with a Republican filibuster which prevented the passage of the urgent deficiency bill, left the Government without sufficient funds for normal activities?let alone flood relief. Assuming that there are 500,000 refugees and that there is $10,000,000 (the Red Cross relief fund) to spend on them, money available for flood relief would be only $20 per victim. By calling a special session, the Government could get both the money for relief work and the authority to spend...
...President but anti-Administration Congressmen are the politics-players. At a special session, flood relief would be forgotten in wrangles over organization, in sniping at the Administration. By the time Congress assembled and got anything done the immediate emergency would long be over...