Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these queries: " The policy of the Government is being directed earnestly toward settlement of the reparation problem and the establishment of sound and stable economic conditions throughout Europe, and eventually to the development of imperial resources and an increase of inter-empire trade." It is expected that a relief for the unemployment tangle will be sought in the Imperial Conference which meets in London in October. During the last quarter nearly 1,000 aliens failed to obtain permission to enter Britain. In this period 87,953 aliens, including those in transit, landed in Britain, 74,633 embarked and permission...
Damages. Compensation is demanded for the foreign victims of the bandits' kidnaping coup. Damages to the extent of $8,000 for each person are claimed for losses incurred, deprivation of liberty and for sufferings and indignities to which they were subjected. Reim bursement of amounts expended in supplying relief to the victims is also claimed...
Harold Noice, a Canadian, left Nome on Aug. 3 on the schooner Donaldson, to relieve Crawford and place another man on the island. The Soviet authorities of Siberia plan to capture the relief party and the Crawford " settlement...
Constantinople is supposed to view this with suspicion, perhaps inspired by Frenchmen who object to Turks with American minds. The Turkish Relief Commission views with delight Turkish gratitude for Mr. Crane's plan, and expects Professor John Dewey of Columbia to go to Turkey as Mr. Crane's personal representative at Mr. Crane's expense. Professor Dewey professes to view with incredulity any such development...
...Personally I have never experienced such profound relief as when my train crossed the little bridge that separates Russia from Latvia. Even the conductor, who goes in and out every week, uncorked a hidden bottle of vodka...