Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panay bombing and, as senior Japanese naval officer responsible under the commander in chief on the Nanking front, Rear Admiral Teizo Mitsunami, 48, was recalled to Japan in disgrace. From staff officers in Shanghai came fervent but indefinite suggestions of a voluntary subscription among Japanese sailors for the relief of the Panay's victims and an official salute was delivered over the Panay's watery grave. The Nichi Nichi raised a fund of 3,466 yen ($1,008) in one day, printed the suggestion that an exact replica of the Panay be built...
...over a year. Instead they sent from north & south two columns accompanied by tanks and planes to nip the line of communications behind the city. By the fourth day Teruel was surrounded, despite counter-attacks from the garrison of 60,000 Rightists, despite attempts of Generalissimo Franco to force relief troops through. Into the snowy streets of Teruel marched ten hostages released by the attackers to carry a promise of amnesty to all civilians and Rightists who would surrender by 9 a. m. on the following morning. Nobody surrendered. Through the day Leftist troops continued to fight from house...
...audience that the intelligent supervision of the WPA art project which he helped to found would be as precarious as the project itself while it remained an emergency measure. Discussion followed on what has become a great desideratum of politically conscious artists who want better standing than work relief affords-the Federal Arts Bill, a proposal for an arrangement more permanent and dignified than WPA, introduced in Congress last session by Representative John Coffee of Washington. Thickset, heavy-voiced Painter Philip Evergood, president of the Artists' Union which, with the Cartoonists' Guild, the Commercial Artists and Designers Union...
After the eighth Friday of my Novena I met a fine Catholic young man. He has been taking me out since then. It is such a relief to have a boy friend who understands as well as practices his religion. . . . A CATHOLIC GIRL...
...that Japan's resources will be strained. Her puppet governments can keep their Chinese subjects quiet only by an outlay of money,--for Japanese gendarmes to maintain order, for puppet Chinese armies of soldiers who must be fed in order to keep them from banditry (a form of unemployment relief), and for public industrial works to make the conquered territory return a profit to Japan...