Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central and Eastern Europe has lost fully one-third of her skilled technicians, doctors, engineers, agriculturists, etc., during and since the war. Reconstruction awaits the trained leadership of today's students. The condition of these students is physically desperate, and the European Student Relief Association which administers the Fund, is the only agency upon which they can rely for help...
...Student Council yesterday announced officially its reasons for approving the drive for $5000 for the relief-of European students, which will be launched on January 7 in all departments of the University. The report read in part...
...Mellon plan, when stripped of its minor provisions, only offers substantial tax relief to the 525,000 individual income surtax payers. I make this statement because Congress could repeal the entire income taxes of the 6,136,000 individuals with incomes of $5,000 or less, which would involve a revenue loss of only $92,790,000, thereby leaving the 525,000 large income surtax payers as the chief beneficiaries of the Mellon income tax recommendations. Dealing with the reduction of surtaxes on these 525,000 incomes in America constitutes the head and front of the Mellon income tax proposals...
...Expenditure of $447,648,639 for relief of former service men and $23,029,253 for other Bureau purposes during the year ending June...
...several hundred thousand refugees in Poland, Rumania, Constantinople. "Unfortunately," the report added, "the High Commission is prevented by the immigration restrictions from effecting this evacuation before it is too late. We take the opportunity of paying tribute to the fine humanitarian work of the Russian Refugees Relief Society in New York, which finds employment for Russians arriving in the United States...