Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exchange fellowships were provided under the Educational Foundation of the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, of which Herbert Hoover is chairman. All expenses of the students are being paid by the Foundation, which is administering the balance of funds left after the relief work of the Commission had been completed...
...screens of the world. Mary Pickford, annoyed thereby, put up her curls and played Rosita. The same story (Don Cesar de Bazan) is the backbone of Miss Negri's The Spanish Dancer. Mary's acting and Mary's production were superior. (National sigh of relief...
...Atlantic City, the Laymen's Committee of the Presbyterian Church, appointed by the last general assembly in Indianapolis to raise $15,000,000 for ministerial relief, adjourned after electing Will H. Hays (former Postmaster General, now cinema Tsar) permanent Chairman. Mr. Hays was in England, but the Committee received assurance that he would assume the task...
...relief boat returned to Kobe, loaded with over a thousand Chinamen, Russians and other foreigners. Meanwhile measures had been taken for emergency hospitals. The Oriental Hotel, an American establishment, was turned over for the purpose. Here volunteer nurses worked over the sufferers, each day removing the bandages so that the doctor might make his round of the fifty patients in as short a time as possible. The cases where operations had to be made, were sent to the regular hospital...
...Squier had nothing but praise for the bravery of the Chinese. Through some blunder, all operating instruments had been left off the relief ship. One Chinaman sat without uttering a word or groan while a doctor cut off three of his toes with a pair of scissors, and after the operation, he thanked the surgeon...