Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet again until next January, can pride itself on having been active enough in its seven-month session, but in too many things it has willingly failed. Broadly, the reason has been a confusion of statesmanship and politics, leading to such asinine Republican challenges as. "No tax relief, no European relief." Sinking back comfortably into their trust in man's supposed basic selfishness, these Congressional leaders based their political hopes on a fantastic combination of a brave, new isolationism and a hideous fear of Russia. But while a great deal of bumbling has been done about communism, labor unions...
Japan's economy was also sick; Japan would need substantial political and economic support from the U.S. Washington had scheduled $270 million for Japanese relief in the next year, plus $600 million for U.S. occupation troops-insurance against Japan's turning to Communism. Chiang Kaishek, a onetime war ally of the U.S. and a notable opponent of Communism in China, might see some injustice in all this, but circumstances dictated policies. From the State Department point of view, the "overall situation" of China at present looked hopeless; Japan was a better proposition strategically. China's best hope...
...That the U.S. will be paying for rehabilitation, not for mere relief which would open up endless vistas of spending...
Princess Ibrahim Hassan, 73, aunt-by-marriage of Egypt's King Farouk, was on relief in Manhattan. She told all, after breaking her shoulder in a fall. It seems that in 1907, as Actress Ola Jane Humphries, she had married Farouk's uncle, retired to live "on a rose-tinted cloud." The cloud burst in 1918, when the Prince died. The Egyptian Government grabbed her husband's $14 million estate and all her jewels. In 14 years of suits, the Princess had acquired nothing but a viewpoint: "I think anyone makes a great mistake in giving...
...supposed to run after it?" Sarah tells Pauline: "You're holding your arm wrong." Replies Pauline: "I can't do much about it. I was born with my arm attached to my shoulder." When they quit clowning and played tennis, the crowd usually breathed a sigh of relief...