Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the trips looked like just a good time at the taxpayers' expense. But at least one was dead serious. Under the leadership of Massachusetts' Representative Christian Herter, who has made himself an expert on foreign relief problems, 19 Congressmen picked from 15 regular House committees will sail for a firsthand look at foreign needs and potentialities under the Marshall plan...
University wide sculling competition in six classes will begin in two weeks, Coach Blake Dennson announced last night, as a promise of relief from summer ennui on the Charles waterfront...
...Angeles, sharp-tongued Mrs. Jesse Brink stormed into a county welfare office, threatened to go back to Oklahoma with her husband and nine of her eleven children because the family relief check had been cut from $278 to $126. "Only rats could live on that," she cried. "It won't pay for our gasoline." Last week, after five years in California, the startled Brinks found themselves rolling eastward. California authorities had not only taken Mrs. Brink's dare but had bought four new tires ($125) for their 1931 La Salle sedan and had deposited expense checks ahead...
There are many things a statesmanlike Congress might have done in this period. A speedy application of European relief not only would serve one of the greatest humanitarian needs of all time, but would, by concrete evidence, give Europeans something to thing about in favor of American and her system of government. Tiredly shelving a bill to help solve the DP problem by letting some immigrants into the country, Congress has instead pushed to absured measures the attempt to "roundup" communists, whose influence of course is nil in a country as rich as the U.S. today...
...diverse points, hope must be suspended until next January. Perhaps then the legislators will form a consistent policy, a little more free from more sniping at the administration, as to what will eventually do the country most good. This will have to include a broad program of European relief and an understanding as to what part will necessarily be played by labor and by government regulations in the next few stormy years...