Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hits, an error, a walk, and a passed ball scored three runs for Penn in the ninth, placing them ahead by a 9-7 margin. Lupe's double and singles by Gannett, Grondahl, Fulton, and Soltz with no one out off the relief hurling of Lynn Fawley ended the game...
...Relief rolls include not only unemployed but those who are not able to work...
Report. There are currently about 12,870,000 U. S. unemployed. On relief are more than 17,314,000. By April 1 approximately 14% of the nation's population were beneficiaries of public aid of one kind or another. These facts, included last week in a preliminary report by the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief, headed by South Carolina's pro-Rooseveltian Senator James Francis Byrnes, would have been enough to make that document arresting. It contained considerably more. Eight weeks ago Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch told the Byrnes Committee that the chief cause...
...that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
...comic, epic and pastoral at the same time, he has done more than 600 tempera and watercolor drawings of Gaucho life on the pampas of Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, has described them as major examples of "harmonious destruction." Good examples are The Last Gaucho (see cut) and How About It? (see cut) which the artist captions thus: "The food...