Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun to worry myself about the spending program," confessed Diarist Morgenthau. "I never objected to spending when the alternative would have been human suffering. . . . [But] I wanted all spending for relief and public works to be coordinated under a single head [and] I wanted a scheduled tapering...
Morgenthau thereupon suggested Danny Bell, the Treasury Department's Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits (and now a Washington banker). "Fortunately, Roosevelt liked the idea. . . . Bell and I immediately set out to ride herd over the spending programs." They quickly found that Roosevelt's chief spenders-Harry Hopkins (relief), Harold Ickes (public works) and Henry Wallace (farm payments)-did not take to this treatment...
...Cross nurse in World War I, Elmira Bears (rhymes with cheers) put in months at nightmarish service in France. After the Armistice, she stayed on for seven months as chief nurse for Herbert Hoover's relief commission to Belgium. Back in the U.S., she continued her career until 1925, when she married Homer Wickenden, a social-welfare official...
...student international affairs there will be an acceleration of present activities by that commission in foreign exchange and foreign travel as well as in relief to the impoverished students of Europe. Cooperation with such agencies as World Student Service Fund, International Student Service, "Junior Year Abroad", and the Institute for International Education has been called for specifically. Furthermore NSA has secured a seat on the United States commission for UNESCO (international commission chairman Robert Smith 1G will occupy it) in an effort to take part in top-level intercultural activities. In the item personally crucial to many here-student travel...
...catcher named Bruce Edwards, 24, whose special talents are steadiness and hustle. In Pee Wee Reese and Eddie Stanky, both short of height but long on skill, they have the best keystone combination in the league. The Dodgers also have a special affection for 34-year-old relief pitcher Hugh Casey, who has come onto the hill to save game after game, and is held in higher esteem by his team mates than strong-arm Ralph Branca, the Dodgers' only 20-game winner. And of course there is Dixie Walker, the "Pee-pul's Cherce...