Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestants are well aware that they have lagged behind Catholics and Jews in the task of finding suitable places in America for Europe's displaced persons. Last week, Church World Service, an overseas relief agency for 20 Protestant and three Eastern Orthodox denominations, took a decisive step to make up the deficit: it launched a campaign to arouse Protestant interest in the plight of Europe's homeless. Designating June as "D.P. Action Month," C.W.S. asked each member church to join in furnishing the assurance of job, housing and transportation from port of arrival which the law requires before...
Actually, there was still plenty to be taken out of Japan. The U.S. had recently cut by more than half the number of Japanese plants earmarked for reparations. Now the remainder will stay, too, working to get Japan off U.S. relief...
...local governments are not interested in improving their living conditions, and in many cases even exclude them from the re-Kef rolls, though their chances of getting work are slim, indeed, due to the discrimination against them. The occupation forces are doing much unpublicized relief work among them, which incidentally is jealously resented by many Germans...
...Horse Again. Democrats cheered with relief. They had not won anything; they had simply turned aside what would have been a humiliating defeat. The Taft-Hartley Act still stood, untouched, on the books. While the fight shifted to the Senate, the House Labor Committee would try to figure a way out of the Administration's dilemma: how to toughen up the old Wagner Act enough to win back Southern support, without making it so tough that Northern Democrats would rebel...
...surge of great events, the aging dreamer returned to Nice. He wrote endlessly, tended his bees or simply sat staring out the windows in his study. When heavy rains recently washed out the telephone line that linked his house to the outside world, the poet breathed a sigh of relief. One day last week, when her 86-year-old husband felt suddenly ill, Countess Maeterlinck had to run to neighbors to phone for a doctor. The call was too late...