Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert and Edward Horton compete for honors in the comic relief, and the verdict goes to the former. An hospitable divorce, living on alimony, Mr. Herbert always cashes his guests' checks, but has a "No Funds" stamp of his own to save him the trouble of going to the bank. The plaster on his little farmhouse was somewhat cracked, "but it reflects my personality. Whoo-whoo...
...Bureau of the Budget was preparing still more drastic means of satisfying the President's desire for a balanced budget. Biggest slash being considered-in anticipation of the President's budget message to the regular session-was $500,000,000 from the $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation for the current fiscal year. Others were $100,000,000 from the PWA's appropriation of $600,000,000, $75,000,000 from the Civilian Conservation Corps's $275,000,000. With the addition of other minor cuts along the line, as well...
During the War, able Liberal Janson worked under Relief Director Herbert Hoover, became Defense Minister in 1920, has since been Minister of Justice four times, today is the uncle of his own Foreign Minister, Paul Henri Spaak. Often a representative of Belgium at sessions of the League of Nations, Premier Janson is rated conscientious, independent of mind and a brilliant orator. "My new Government," he declared, "will continue Belgium's policy of steering clear of foreign alliances...
...postage stamps with which to keep His Majesty's correspondence going. "I am a poor man, yes!" Haile Selassie told Miss Steedman to tell the world, "but I am not an object of charity. Such undignified gifts as these should be sent to the Abyssinia Association for the relief of refugees...
Also voted last night were an appropriation of $50 for the relief of universities in China, and a decision to send a Harvard representative to a conference of Eastern College Student Councils at Cornell this week...