Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Relief Distant...
Hearing the word "entertainment," Senator Ferguson grabbed at it with relief, looked around the packed room and shouted, "Where's Johnny Meyer?" Hughes said he didn't know, and laughed right in the Senator's face. Ferguson said grimly, "It isn't funny." He asked Hughes: "Will you bring Mr. Meyer in?" After a long pause Hughes replied coldly: "No, I don't think I will." The two men glared hard at each other, then Ferguson signed a subpoena for Expense Account Johnny...
...Cancellation of $15 million in relief for Poland...
...first day, about 5,000 people stomped in off the blaring midway for a look, munching hot dogs and sipping soda pop. The farmers and their families did a double-quick shuffle around the big brick Exposition Building's art wing, and then moved on, with something like relief, to the more familiar exhibits. Said one dejected official: "These people come to see the latest harvesting machines, threshers and milking equipment, but what they want in art is what they saw in grandmother...
Just how all this came to pass is where the miracle comes in. It started during Harvard's food relief drive, when Clemens Heller 2G, had the idea that Harvard might be able to do more than send food to Europe. He thought originally of a small group of faculty men coming to Salzburg during the festival season to talk about the United States to European students, but the idea grew as he outlined it to the International Student Service, a world organization which had been considering a plan for a rest home for European students...