Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rich, chairman of the Student Friendship Fund for the eastern district, opened the program by describing the conditions which he had observed among European students, and the methods by which the European Student Relief Association is bringing them assistance. "We are meeting here tonight," he said, "because among the nations of central Europe there are hundreds of thousands of students who are hungry, and unable to buy supper, lacking the one cent for which the European Student Relief will feed them. The education and reconstruction of Europe is at stake today, and by giving help in the time of need...
...Mellon tax plan; every capable publicity man by this time knows the stock arguments in favor of it, and thus a great unanimity of opinion has resulted. The topic of European recovery was worn threadbare during 1919-23 by prominent bankers and manufacturers, and it has been a genuine relief for their secretaries to write of the more practical and vital topic of taxes...
...Austria and Germany. Their parents are no more able to send them monthly subsidies. Teaching and other liberal occupations are paid in depreciated money which has no buying power. Students, there fore, are unable to buy food and to procure shelter, fuel, and, of course, books in reasonable quantities. Relief organizations help them to a certain but insufficient extents...
...dinner in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 6 o'clock for the committees and collectors of the Student Friendship Fund will open the drive for $5000 for the relief of destitute European students. The drive will close on the evening of Tuesday, January...
...Baldwin '24, chairman of the drive, will explain the detailed plans for solicitation to the collectors, and Mr. R. T. Rich, chairman of the Fund for the Eastern District of the United States will discuss the methods used in applying relief in Europe. In addition, Professor M. O. Hudson L. '10 of the Law School, Professor Ralph Harlow '08 of Smith College, and Mr. J. Henry Scattergood of Philadelphia will speak. The president of the Student Council, F. A. O. Schwarz, will preside...