Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial recessed for the weekend, Justice Cyril Salmon dismissed the jurors with a warning not to watch Liberace's Sunday night TV show because it might prejudice them. After the show they had watched all week, a night off probably was a welcome relief...
...shoes for the family firm, headed southward with volumes of Latin poetry-Virgil, Ovid, Horace-packed along with his samples. After four years in the shoe business, he took a train to Washington in 1917 and offered his services as a volunteer worker for Herbert Hoover's Belgian Relief Commission. Drawing no pay (he skimped along on his savings), Strauss worked for Hoover for 2½ years, first as a sort of office boy and then as secretary ("My jewel of a secretary," Hoover called him). When Hoover went to Europe as wartime Food Administrator, he took Strauss along...
Public Career. Solid (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), curly-haired Clint Anderson took early to Democratic politics. He handled several Depression-era state and federal jobs, dealing mostly with unemployment and relief in New Mexico, in 1940 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms. He made a House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry...
...most serious question: had there been an off-to-Buffalo shuffle with A.G.V.A. sick and relief funds? Member contributions are recorded only by number, not by name, so that only Bright and his staff can decipher who deserves what. In addition, a separate corporation called the A.G.V.A. Foundation, headed by busy Jackie Bright, last year bought 62 acres of land in the Catskills, plus assorted buildings, announced that this was the new retreat for retired A.G.V.A. members. So far no A.G.V.A. member has retired there. Asked one critic: "What kind of a home is it up there in the hills...
...case Wadsworth should run into difficulty, Shepard can call upon either Wally Cook or Byron Johnson, two pitchers who have both done very well during the latter part of the season. Cook, indeed, saved the first Yale game with a fine fourinning relief...