Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge stood up while a veteran of Foreign Wars pinned the first of this year's Buddy Poppies-sold for the relief of veterans-on his lapel...
With the miasma of fear and hatred arising from the passions of war still tending to obscure the fundamental issues of reconstruction the appropriation of ten million dollars by the House of Representative for the relief of starving women and children in Germany comes as a decided surprise. It is at once an evidence if a renewed sanity in political outlook and an indication of the seriousness of the food problem in Germany. As an expression of a forgiving spirit and a desire to alleviate unnecessary; suffering the bill should call forth only favorable comment, which even the suspicion that...
...essence the appropriation is consistent with an American policy of international charity, of which the Near East Relief is but the most widely known expression. Even the impoverished population of the Hebrides turned to the United States for aid rather than to nearby England. But while no fault is to be found with such a split, it has apparently taken the place of a wise and constructive policy of international relations. The United States places itself in the anomalous position of shying at all suggestions of cooperation while holding itself ready to extend its own help to sufferers anywhere...
...measure of immediate and temporary relief, the House Bill is another magnificent example of beneficence but no nation can long survive on charity. Of far greater permanent value to Germany and the rest of the world would be a definite settlement of the reparations problems. Constructive statesmanship rather than largesse is needed to bring about an economic readjustment of Europe; a real readjustment upon an equitable determination of the amount which Germany can actually pay. And by a concensus of expert opinion, which the Dawes report will undoubtedly reflect, that amount is very much less than the rather punitive...
Died. Dr. William Olin Stillman, 67, President of the American Humane Association, President of the International Federation of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, director general of the American Red Star Animal Relief, which is credited with having saved the lives of more than 1,000,000 animals during the War; in Albany...