Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President transmitted to Congress a message advocating banking relief for the farming regions of the Northwest, and the deficiency budget for the present year as prepared by the Budget Bureau. (See Page 6.) ¶ President Coolidge instructed Secretary of the Navy Denby that no members of the Navy were to take part in boxing exhibitions savoring of commercialism. The Methodist Board of Temperance and Public Morals had protested that a recent exhibition in Manhattan, given for the Navy's athletic fund, "had all the earmarks of a prize fight...
...collection of Japanese paintings at 65 East 56th St., Manhattan, is being sold for earthquake relief. Some are done on silk. One, named Horror, portrays Tokyo burning...
Henry Morgenthau, head of the International Loan Commission for the Succor of Greek Refugees: "In Athens, at an entertainment of the American Near East Relief, a boys' band played The Star Spangled Banner. Depatches stated that I was overcome by emotion, that tears rolled down my cheeks...
...Christians who go out to kill" was the scathingly paradoxical characterization of those who participate in war, made by Mr. John P. Fletcher, a prominent English Quaker, in an interview on Saturday with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Fletcher, who is now head of the Friends' Relief Work in Germany, was a member of the group of noted British pacifists who were imprisoned during the war for their opinions...
Among the fifty-odd candidates who reported, R. F. Cordingley '25, E. F. Herrman '25, and J. E. Toulmin '25 are the only pitchers of last year's squad who have begun to work regularly. K. N. Hill '24, whose excellent relief pitching in the final Yale game last June puts him among the leading aspirants for a regular berth, has been at the field for practice. He is still favoring a football injury, however, and so has not yet put on a uniform. Grosvenor Bemis '24 and Philip Spalding '25, both of whom saw service last year...