Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houghton Mifflin Company at this time is especially opportune in view of its contents and aim. It will help to answer some of the questions asked by thoughtful observers, such as "Will there be a new party?" "What will the Progressive Bloc do in Congress?" "Why is agricultural relief so urgent and persistent...
With their two sons, Herbert and Allan, the Hoovers lived for several years in England. Their house in Kensington was a rendezvous for interesting Americans. She was active in Belgian relief work, was President of the Girl Scouts in 1923, and is vitally interested in all educational enterprises. More talkative than her husband, she once said: "If you want to get the gloomiest view of any subject on earth, ask Bert about...
...Confirmed the nomination of Irwin B. Laughlin to be Minister to Greece. ¶ Adopted unanimously, a resolution requesting that impeachment proceedings be brought against Clarence C. Chase, son-in-law of ex-Secretary Fall. ¶ Passed a bill wiping out a debt of $650,000 of the Near East Relief to the War Department on account of supplies furnished for relief work. ¶ Recommitted a resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, whereby all future amendments would have to be ratified by popular vote (TIME, March 10). This was practically equivalent to defeating the measure...
...Firbank -Brentano ($2.00). With such a title, the reader knows what to expect. He is not disappointed, for he is soon afloat in a sea of fantastic nonsense. Purporting to be a study of British West Indian life and manners, this book leaves one with a dizzying sense of relief that the British West Indies are far away. Carl Van Vechten's whimsical preface proclaims Firbank to be the "only authentic master of the light touch, a man who might be writing with his eyelashes or the tips of his polished finger-nails." Which may all be. Indeed...
This news is a tremendous relief. It had been feared that the day was definitely past when the licentious burghers of Cambridge could revel in such daring and questionable exhibitions as "Le Tartuffe" and "The Life of Man"; it had even seemed possible that the wild seenes of orgy which had been planned in connection with the coming production of "Jalouse" might have to be postponed until the present demonstration of official prudishness subsided. Now, however, the threatened calamity has been averted. Whatever may be the state of City Hall opinion in the Hub of the Universe, this way-ward...