Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victory Collection of Canned Food for overseas relief, which is on behalf of UNRRA, encourages local groups and organizations to conduct collections of canned food. For information on organizing such a collection or where to ship contributions of food, interested groups should write to The Victory Collection of Canned Food, 100 Maiden Lane, New York...
Executive Director Victory Collection of Canned Food Community Canning Program for War Relief New York City
Among top contenders was Boston, which had flown handsome Governor Maurice J. Tobin, and other leaders, to London. At the State House, a bas-relief map of Greater Boston was ready for delegates; there was talk of using a blimp for reconnaissance...
...painted fussy toy trains and muscular self-portraits. Nowadays the field is crowded with such deliberate amateurs as upstate New York's 85-year-old "Grandma" Moses (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) and fellow Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield, 73-year-old retired slipper manufacturer who paints nudes with bas-relief noses and lions with custom-tailored, button-on manes...
...them to spinning, and taught them arithmetic by letting them count the strands. He showed them nature on long walks in the neighboring valleys, and they brought back clay to make crude relief maps for their geography lessons. There was no memorizing and no flogging...