Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price fixing for agriculture; farm relief in accordance with plans submitted by the special commission which he recently appointed...
...diplomacy rather than to the dubious protection of treaties and agreements. The Tories will, of course, try to reduce taxes, without restricting the beneficent activities of the government among the needy electorate. Altogether, the next months, perhaps years, will see the unrolling of a moderate plan of internal relief and development with a rather dignified and touchy mingling in the horseplay of European politics: bread at home and game abroad will once again quiet the restless mob of voters...
Prince Leopold of Belgium, Foreign Minister Hymans, U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, Burgomaster Max of Brussels, Mr. Edgar Rickard of the U. S, Belgian Relief Commission, other officials and dignitaries, doffed hats and made, speeches as mortar was applied to the cornerstone of new buildings for the free university in Brussels...
...editorial of yesterday the CRIMSON pointed out the inadequacy of the proposed measure to create a "Ministry of Education and Relief" in the President's Cabinet. It remains to show what should be done to improve educational conditions...
...proposed "Department of Education and Relief" is a mere subterfuge. The existing Bureau of Education entirely inadequate in powers is to be transferred from the Department of the Interior, but not one additional power is granted it. The other functions of the new department are as heterogeneous as the sources from which they are drawn. In brief it proposes to take over the Public Health Service, the Veterans' Bureau, the Civil War Pension Bureau, and numerous other stray functions which have been unwanted step-children to the departments that have administered them...