Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...combined musical clubs of the University will not be permitted to play in a joint concert with the musical organizations of Yale and Princeton for the benefit of the Armenian and Syrian Relief Fund, was the decision reached yesterday afternoon by the Administrative Board of the University. The proposed concert would have been held in New York on the evening of Tuesday, January 15. The Metropolitan Opera House had already been engaged for the occasion...
...less than five hours after news of the disaster reached Boston the New England division of the American Red Cross had a relief outfit in readiness for the special train which Governor McCall had ordered to be sent to Halifax. The outfit included sweaters, medical and hospital supplies, nurses and a committee to begin the work of civilian relief in the stricken city...
Then another relief train was quickly outfitted and sent off the next day with 25 doctors, 65 nurses and a complete 500-bed base hospital outfit. In less than two days after the arrival of this relief train in Halifax a wrecked college had been restored, equipped and put into service as a hospital...
...course this is very little compared with the great work of relief carried on by the Red Cross in hospitals and battlefields, and among the civilian population in war-ridden France and Serbia and Italy and Roumania. However, it brings a thrill of pride to Americans and emphasizes the fact that the present drive for new members is simply another means afforded the people to aid this great cause. --Boston Herald...
...navy." It watches over and ministers to our fighting men at all times and in all places. At every point it is the necessary supplement of our Government in the care of our men in active service. Not only this, but it performs a service unattempted by Government--the relief of the suffering of the civilian population...