Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Bar Association's highest endorsement of "exceptionally well-qualified." The tall, stern son of a County sheriff, Cox was a stickler for detail and had been a first-rate trial lawyer in Jackson. Other Kennedy appointees seemed equally qualified, and the Administration heaved a sigh of relief...
...Johnson's speeches have been less than startling, the President offers the relief of informality. Despite the security that surrounds him he has managed to be hit on the head with a sign and punched by a policeman; he has dropped in uninvited for coffee at a stranger's house; he has talked to newsmen while taking 20-lap tours around the White House lawn...
...urged that German and Austrian women and children be fed by the U.S. too. "I did not believe that stunted bodies and deformed minds in the next generation were the foundation upon which to rebuild civilization," he later explained. At war's end, Hoover headed a massive American relief effort in Europe, directed the delivery of 20 million tons of food and supplies to 300 million people in 22 countries...
...humanitarian work lasted a lifetime. As Secretary of Commerce, he directed the evacuation of 1,500,000 people from the floodlands of the lower Mississippi in 1927, saw that they were housed and fed. Years later, in 1946, Democratic President Harry Truman asked Hoover to examine the relief needs of Asia and Europe in the post-World War II famine. Then 71, Hoover tirelessly trekked 35,000 miles through 25 countries to make his report...
...civil rights revolution has raised sharp questions. Where can a Mississippi Negro, for example, seek relief if the state denies him a fair trial and a federal judge refuses to listen? Must he travel the long road through the state courts to the U.S. Supreme Court? All over the South, arrested civil rights workers have complained that the tradition of immediate remand denies them federal hearings in cases of obviously violated constitutional rights. The answer to their complaint is Title IX of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which now permits remands to be appealed to U.S. courts of appeals...