Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world must not deny a special recognition to Mr. Hoover, chairman of the Belgian Relief Commission, who saved the Belgians from starvation and subsequently organized the food supply for the European Allies to tide them over critical times...
...come out this morning and everybody is very cheerful after many days of drizzle. It must be a great relief to the boys on the firing line, as there are no trenches--only holes in the ground that they dig for themselves and lie in with no covering except their own blankets. They come in here simply caked with mud and look very miserable and cold. The Red Cross Canteen here furnishes them with hot bouillon, cocoa, etc., when they arrive and when they go on the train to be evacuated...
...British, 83 Canadian, 38 Australian, 1 French, 40 Russian, 2 Belgian, 1 Died in Service, 124 78 Total, 6198 5803 Sept. 21 June 1918 1918 Auxiliary Service, 2583 2146 (Including State Guard, Volunteer Ambulance Service, Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. at home and abroad, and Relief Service). Died in Service, 21 20 Total...
...Fearing died suddenly while attending a Red Cross meeting in Newport on May 26. Always a man of great vigor aur vitality, he plunged with a will into all forms of war relief work. His most distinguishing characteristic was his active interest in life, an interest indicated by his public offices in Newport and in Rhode Island, by his unrivalled collections of books, and by the long list of clubs with which he was connected. Prominent among the latter was the Crolier Club of New York, of which he was one of the earliest members and a constant and most...
...show Italy's appreciation of the relief measures of the Red Cross in that country King Victor Emmanuel has sent the following telegram to Robert P. Perkins '84, head of the Red Cross Commission in Italy...