Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going, with the Government (i.e., the general taxpayer) bearing administrative costs. Lest this seem a new and greater bounty to farmers, the committee pointed out that in the past ten years, exclusive of AAA benefits, the Government has paid $615,937,000 to stricken farmers in the shape of Relief, feed loans, seed loans. Crop insurance would be voluntary, and so far farmers have shown no great enthusiasm for it. But Secretary Wallace has long waxed enthusiastic about the "ever-normal granary" or "Joseph" plan for which it is a starter, so John Farmer is likely to get it whether...
...Great War, he held the position of assistant in the Department of State. At the conclusion of the war, Herter, who was born in Paris, acted as Secretary for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris. Shortly after the war he worked with Herbert Hoover on the European Relief Council, of which he was executive Secretary. He continued to work with Hoover as he held the position of assistant in the Department of Commerce from...
...been generally interested in the field of relief work, serving as Director of the American Child Health Association, the Community Health Association, and the Commission for relief of Belgium...
...first time in his life House Speaker William Brockman Bankhead watched his daughter Tallulah act in a finished play (Reflected Glory), tearfully observed as the curtain fell: "Parental restraint prevents my gushing. . . ." Before the curtain rose, he signed the $950,000,000 Relief Deficiency Bill...
Like ostriches, cassowaries, children and certain abnormal adults, dogs sometimes develop an appetite for indigestible objects. Cause of this is usually a calcium deficiency in the blood. The usual method of relief has been to slice open the dog's stomach. Last week in Manhattan. Chief Surgeon Raymond Jesup Garbutt of the S. P. C. A. demonstrated a new bloodless way which he has invented to retrieve canine inedibles. Thrusting a 36-in. forceps down the throat of a bull terrier, Dr. Garbutt removed successively an 8-oz. lead sinker, a wrist watch, a sparkplug, a pair of dice...