Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Eliot has accepted the appointment as honorary chairman of the Massachusetts State Committee of the American Committee for Relief in the near East...
...Massachusetts Committee has been assigned the task of raising $1,500,000, which is the Bay State's quota of the national drive for $30,000,000 for relief work in the near East...
...work of the two financiers is not yet known, but it is understood that they will take up the duties left by O. T. Crosby, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, who has returned to this country. They will probably also assist in the disbursement of the European Food Relief Fund...
...Reverend Edward Caldwell Moore, D.D., Chairman of the Board of Preachers, and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, will leave for Constantinople next Saturday, January 4, as a member of the American Commission on Relief and Reconstruction in the Near East. The chairman of the commission is the Reverend Dr. James L. Barton of Boston, chairman of the Congregational Commission for Foreign Missions, which has been prominent in its work at Roberts College for Women, Constantinople. The other five members of the reconstruction commission beside Professor Moore are: Rabbi Wise of New York, President John H. Main of Grinell College, Iowa...
About the middle of this month, after matters have been arranged by the commission for the furthering of relief work in Constantinople, another ship will sail from this country with supplies of food and hospital equipment, and with a personnel of doctors, nurses, and others who will work on relief and reconstruction in Turkey...