Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first morning back at the White House. He read a large batch of mail, signed documents, received callers. Among them were: Cabinet members Hoover, Kellogg, Sargent, Wilbur; Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, who discussed relief plans for Florida; Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio...
...said, "Perhaps you are right, Arnie. And I'll bear no hard feelings. I'll keep on telling you how to run the team just as though nothing had happened." And you should have seen the look of relief on his face. For he knew what a hole he would be in if Joe Forecast was missing from his council table...
...been called a comedy of American low life by which is meant that the characters are not Anglo-Saxon, do not speak copper plate English, nor live in trim little apartments furnished with a show of opulence. The scenery is therefore different, a bit less polished, and a relief from drawing rooms. Then again, the play is unusually terse. At moments, the characters are voluble enough,--when they deviate into politics or prohibition,--but at the moments that mark the dramatic progress of the piece, they have just those few words for which the situation calls. The rest...
Among the members of last year's "Big Three" championship team to report were F. B. Cutts '28, a practically unknown twirler last spring whose relief work in the Yale series carried the CRIMSON to victory in two of eight games, J. E. Tobin '27, regular first sacker, and W. B. Jones '28, star outfielder. R. R. Ketchum '29, and E. L. Molloy '29, mainstays of the Freshman hurling corps of a year ago were also in uniform...
...David Scott Kennedy, ruthless editor of The Presbyterian, "best known fighting fundamentalist journal," has just retired, at 70. Thereby he gives spiritual relief to many a good Presbyterian, especially to the pacific commission of 15 of the Presbyterian general assembly, whom Dr. Kennedy has viciously flayed for holding doctrines less stern than...