Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell its readers about the Navajos' plight has been a cascade of letters to Congress and the White House. Significantly enough, several Congressional committees have now visited the Navajo reservation. Another result, of course, has been the multitude of contributions from all over the U.S. for Navajo relief. In case there could be any doubt of their necessity, a letter we have received from the justly famed American Friends Service Committee speaks for the accuracy of the press' reporting: ". . . One of our representatives . . . [has] returned from a trip he made for us to the Navajo territory. He confirmed...
Many also remembered something else: the feeling of scarcely admitted relief. On Pearl Harbor Day, the line between right & wrong had been drawn with the sharp definition of a bomb splinter. There had been only one possible course which Americans could accept without reservation. Last week, as 1947 drew to a close, many wondered if anything could ever seem so terrifyingly simple again...
...cablegram to his brother, William S. Campbell '50, chairman of the Relief Committee at Harvard, Campbell, administrative director of the Home, emphasized the key position of the Leopoldskron organization, which is able to act as the middle man in handling gifts sent overseas from this country. The Seminar European Advisory Committee is prepared to reship all packages which are sent to them according to their needs, the cable said...
Representatives from the graduate schools of Business Administration, Engineering, Law, Divinity, and Arts and Sciences took immediate steps to work with the Council on such projects of mutual interest as foreign relief, charity donations, alien student aid, the National Student Association, and student finance problems. Another meeting was scheduled for next Tuesday...
Many a trader thought that Washington still did not realize how its loose schedules and loose talk upset the markets. Nor did they think the Administration really understood what thin ice it was skating on. Grain dealers testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee that the foreign relief program may leave the U.S. with a dangerously low grain carryover...