Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly, some Congressmen demanded that Hungary be cut off from the benefits of the $350 million foreign relief loan. Cried House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Charles Eaton: "If Russia takes over the soul of Hungary, let her take over Hungary's alimentary canal at the same time...
These silent little victims stare as if in mute reproach to our generation of "adults" whose puerile irresponsibility let this war come to pass. Weary, aged and disillusioned beyond their years, they plead the case for relief and rehabilitation far more eloquently than their elders who . . . have so grievously failed them...
While these major decisions waited, the President closeted himself in the White House, free of callers, to attack his backlog of other urgent business. He signed without ceremony the $350 million foreign relief bill. He had a long talk with the members of his commission to study universal military training, spent most of one day reading their report (see above...
...moment, the world can use loans and relief money from the U.S. to help pay for American exports which cannot be swapped for imports. All told, the loans and relief will swell the $7.6 billion from U.S. imports to nearly $14 billion. Thus, at the present rate, the net export-import deficit of foreign nations which will have to be made up from hoarded savings will be between $4 and $5 billion. That is nearly one-quarter of the $20 billion in gold and U.S. dollars held in the world outside...
Kittery Point was shocked that Eliza Wall, a well-bred, teen-age schoolgirl, should run after a one-eyed French Canadian kid named Claw Moreau, whose family was on town relief. At first, in school, she had been repulsed by his rude speech, the sinister black patch over his missing eye, the squalor of the wharfside shack where his husbandless mother carelessly raised her children, the fixed lines of bitterness which came from learning early that he was a social outcast. Later Eliza's fear became curiosity; and as she grew older, sympathy...