Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several of the recent allegations of the Lowell House Committee in its letter to the Student Council Food Relief Committee seemed ill-advised. They had apparently forgotten that the foremost issue has been that underfed Europeans need sustenance and that it is worth some sacrifice on the part of better-nourished Americans to supply relief. Besides being unsound economically in supposing that one can have his cake and send it to Europe too, the position of the Lowell House Committee leaves room for doubts about its awareness of the food crisis...
Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston, became Dame Clementine-a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, for her Russian relief fundraising...
...hear the results next Tuesday evening. My guess is that a great many of you will want to tune in - if the multitude of letters and cash contributions for world famine we have received from you is any indication. Incidentally, the relief agencies we sent your contributions to have expressed their gratitude for the help you have given them...
...dress at the Ford plant and her slip kept climbing up underneath it. Everybody admired her legs. Said one observer in a hoarse aside: "Don't tell me that's peasant stock." High point of the visit was a banquet staged by the Detroit Committee of Russian Relief, Inc. It was held in the cream and red ballroom of the Book-Cadillac Hotel. It was a real party-bald heads gleamed like large opals and many of the female capitalists saluted the Kremlin by wearing orchids...
...Matsuzakaya gang had its roots in the 17th Century, when the samurai, Japan's warrior class, had formed brawling street associations as a relief from unemployment between wars. More recently members had become black market dealers and fences for stolen goods...