Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (326 to 44) the Administration's $1,500,000,000 Relief Bill...
...tribesmen. French settlers and more sedentary tribes have long preempted all the available cork forests, vineyards, barley fields. Suddenly alive to its danger, the Government last week sent Administrator Steeg and his party to the scene of the hunger march, and voted $2,250,000 relief money to match $450,000 which the Banque d'Etat de Maroc has already put up to buy food for the starving tribes. Distribution of free barley and mutton has already started...
...large enough. There can be no rain until next January, seven months. The relief fund would mean trying to keep 1,500,000 people alive that length of time at a little less than 2? a day a head. Tuareg tempers grew no better when, upon the first distribution of relief grain several weeks ago, many died from wolfing barley, then drinking water. The Government moved again, talked loudly of a great program of well-drilling and reservoir-building south of the Atlas. The Tuaregs have little interest in reservoirs for the future, they want food now, and France cannot...
...Piano, painted in 1879, an example of the purest Renoir radiance, and Mine Renoir Nursing Pierre, in which the artist used flat, dry colors and a linear definition of forms very different from the technique by which he is commonly known. The same room contains a bronze relief, done in 1914, of a painting. The Judgment of Paris, done in 1908 and now the property of Actor Charles Laughton. Racked by arthritis during the last 20 years of his life, Renoir had to have his brush strapped to his arm to go on painting, could sculpture only with the help...
...same process of reasoning, and the same spirit of accommodation to events, that have extended the meaning of the Constitution to this point can easily push it into new fields." The Federal Government has already assumed responsibilities undreamed of a few generations ago: "It gives financial relief to millions of unfortunates; it clears the slums in cities, assists the people in building homes, pays off the mortgages on the farm, constructs roads, parks, bridges and transportation systems for localities, subsidizes Federal theatres, promotes literary and scientific research, furnishes amusement for the masses, and finances lighting plants and an infinite variety...