Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California Democrats sighed with relief. For weeks, party leaders had been trying to nudge State Attorney General Robert Walker Kenny into running against Republican Governor Earl Warren. For weeks Kenny had shied-he had his eye on bigger things, and the governor's mansion had been a political dead end for many a California politician. But last week, with some misgivings, he announced his candidacy...
...Passed the $128,550,000 deficiency appropriation bill (its second urgent one this session), setting up funds for veterans' hospitalization, old-age relief...
...this all? No call to the republican masses? No sanctions, economic or political? No threat of direct intervention? Nothing to follow up the French closing of the border? The Generalissimo and his advisers breathed a long sigh of relief...
Politics of Relief. This week, the men whose job it is to feed the world's hungry millions gather in the fourth Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration at Atlantic City's lush Traymore Hotel. To soften the contrast between the locale and the subject of their discussions, UNRRA officials announced that the delegates would have to double up in $16.50-a-day rooms, would be served "austerity" meals. Two crucial issues would come up at the meeting...
...face. On his breast lay a jasper scarab with the inscription: "Do not betray me, O heart, on the day of judgment." Beside him, to aid him on his journey, were jeweled or golden images of his gods, and golden dishes, beautifully wrought. One dish showed a bas-relief of women swimming through lotus flowers...