Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill for developing Capital parks and playgrounds, at an annual cost of $1,100,000. ¶Passed a bill providing for the construction of eight scout cruisers, six river gunboats, and installation of oil-burning boilers in six battleships. ¶Debated at length the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill. ¶By a vote of 221 to 157, supported a concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die on Saturday, June 7. (The resolution had not yet come up in the Senate...
According to Major General Henry T. Allen, onetime Commander of the U. S. Army of Occupation, now head of the Committee for the Relief of German Children, 1,000,000 children are being fed by food purchased with money subscribed by the American people...
...down (more vivas). The Royal Family then returned to the Palace, many of the Senators and Deputies left immediately, but some of the young and ardent Fascisti had not finished. As soon as the wheels of the royal coaches had started to revolve, their constraint vanished and with relief akin to that felt after the passage of a thunderstorm they volleyed the Fascist hymn Giovinezza...
Said U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes in a telegram: "I have learned with profound relief of your having escaped all injury in the recent attempt upon your life. I extend to you my hearty congratulations...
...photographs from St. Louis to New York. The New York World owns the American rights of the Belin system, which it has improved in private research, but has not yet used commercially. The Belin principle is quite different from the A. T. & T. process. The photo graph becomes a relief map, the elevations and depressions causing the variations in the electrical current, instead of a beam of light. The Radio Corporation of America owns the Alexanderson method (TIME, Nov. 12), very similar to the Telephone method, by which photographs have been transmitted from New York to Poland and back again...