Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American Ambulance Service in France. Tribute was paid to Dillwyn P. Starr '08 and Edward M. Stone '08, who have given their lives in the cause of the Allies, and attention was called to the fact that the Ambulance Service, the army surgical staff and the Refugee Relief Committee have all contained many...
...American Red Cross is authorized by an act of Congress, and the President of the United States is its honorary head. It is the only volunteer organization in the incorporated to give relief both in-time of war and after sudden catastrophes. Prompt and practical relief has been rendered in more than 80 disasters during the last ten years, and much good work has been done in preventing disease and instituting educational movements...
...East. Does it not seem that American has not seem that American has ignored the fact that she has already assumed the responsibility of being a world power? It seems to me that she has time and again been looked upon by the Orient and by the Occident for relief and support. And i believe that when the present world-conflict ends, probably at the close of the next two years, the belligerent nations will again solicit the help of American to act as a mediator. Then, and not till then, she should take a firm stand in shaping world...
...from sudden catastrophes. It is also interested in preventive measures for disease and in educational improvements. In the last ten years the organization has rendered timely assistance in more than 80 disasters. Having branches throughout the country, it has received and spent more than $10,000,000 and donated relief supplies valued...
...this Dean Briggs observes in his 1911 report: "Taxicabs as the sole means of getting about, costly dinners with wines and cigars,--all to be paid for out of gate money,--these things belong to that theory of training which furnishes free automobile rides and theatre trips as a relief to the overtaxed nervous systems of the University squads...