Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed and sent to the White House the $350 million foreign-relief bill...
Jack Wallace and Brendon Reilly, the Varsity's one-two pitching punch, will probably share mound duties this weekend, with lra Godin, the Crimson's Hugh Casey, held for relief duties...
Brazil's Communists, outlawed and barred from their headquarters, felt a little better after the first shock had worn off. The big reason for their sense of relief was that President Dutra's Government had lost the offensive. It had found itself legally unable to finish the Communists by turning their legislators out of Congress and stopping the presses of their raucous Tribuna Popular. Moreover, many a thoughtful Brazilian, with no love for Communism but with a lively memory of dictatorship, had rushed to support the Communist Party's right to exist...
...Communists showed their relief. In the Senate palace, Luis Carlos Prestes, Brazil's No. 1 Communist, popped up one afternoon to return some papers to the Commission of Justice, of which he is a member. He explained that he had been "too busy lately" to work on them. One evening in downtown Rio, a group called "The Friends of Paraguay" met to hear a Negro actor read the poems of U.S. leftist Langston Hughes. They were so moved that they soon addressed each other, not as "friend," but as "comrade." In the sultry Vermelinho (The Little...
...current worry of the Administration was not military but economic strength. Strategic use of economic power was the way the Administration intended to wage the conflict with Communism. To that end the Administration had asked for aid to Greece and Turkey, and for $350 million for foreign relief. With these token forces the Administration could make cautious advances into positions on the economic front. Those positions could gradually be stabilized. But last week the front cracked right in its center. Germany faced a new food crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS...