Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staples having risen in value from about $5,300,000,000 two years ago to about $7,000,000,000 for the current year. . . . With his products not selling on a parity with the products of industry, every sound remedy that can be devised should be applied for the relief of the farmer. . . . No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for Government fixing of prices, no resort to the public Treasury will be of any permanent value in establishing agriculture. Simple and direct methods put into operation by the farmer himself are the only real sources of restoration. Indirectly...
Irrigation and Reclamation?"Occupants of our reclamation projects are in financial difficulties, which in some cases are acute. Relief should be granted by definite authority of law empowering the Secretary of the Interior in his discretion to suspend, readjust and reassess all charges against water users. This whole question is being considered by experts. You will have the advantage of the facts and conclusions which they may develop. This situation, involving a Government investment of more than $135,000,000 and affecting more than 30,000 water-users, is serious...
Throughout Europe, and particularly in Russia, college men and women have been caught in the mill of political events. A recent report by John R. Mott, chairman of the European Student Relief, describes the appalling conditions under which education is carried on. It tells the old familiar stories of poverty, sickness, and suffering. The fact that the intellectual element, from which leadership must come in the future, is threatened adds force to the appeal of humanity alone. The need for doctors, engineers, and all kinds of professional men becomes greater and greater, and without help from America, a serious shortage...
...have been greatly interested to hear of the plans which the colleges and schools of America are making to continue their support of the Student Friendship Fund for European Student Relief. I have known intimately its relief program--its student kitchens in Russia, the assistance given refugee students, and its development of self-help organizations in other lands...
...Therefore I wish to express my highest appreciation of the work and of the methods of administration employed by the European Student Relief. It has done much to insure educated leaders for the rebuilding of Europe...