Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went back to his native St. Louis and went into public life as a promoter of parks and playgrounds. As Park Commissioner he announced: "If we can't have both people and grass in the parks, we will have people." When the War came he went abroad doing relief work among prisoners, only to return to go into training at Plattsburgh. Then he became a Captain in the Fifth Missouri Regiment and went overseas as Major of the 138th Infantry. Twice he was cited for gallantry in action, and he has the Distinguished Service Cross. In 1920 he stood...
Came "Wizard Caillaux," as the Painlevé Government steppd up to power, and attempted to work many miracles which have failed. His internal 4% gold loan which was to have absorbed the great weight of defense bonds and brought relief to the Treasury has not achieved adequate flotation. The Moroccan War and M. Caillaux's uncertain U. S. debt settlement have further contributed to send the franc tumbling down to 22 to the dollar, and have caused Caillaux himself to admit that the Bank of France can see its way clear to facing its present obligations without inflation...
...domestic problems which resulted from the War. The chief of these was the care and relief of the afflicted veterans and their dependents. This was a tremendous task, on which about $3,000,000,000 has already been expended...
...Pospisil came to settle a debt of only 117 millions instead of 4 billions, but he had some special difficulties of his own -notably a disagreement over the principal sum. The Czecho-Slovakian debt was contracted after the War and comprised several items including purchase of War supplies, relief supplies, flour, cash ,advances, repatriation of Czech soldiers from Siberia...
...employes' insurance' as schemes of employers more insidious than outright attack in undermining the unions. He warned Labor of Communistic organizations masquerading as part of the bona fide trade union movement?such organizations as the International Defense Council, the American Negro Congress, the Irish Workers' and Peasants' Famine Relief Committee, the International Workers' Aid, the Workers' Party, the Trade Union Educational League...