Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relief the group recommended among other things spending $203,000,000 on electrifying the railroads as a means of absorbing part of the 1,500,000 army of unemployed...
Colonel Haskell, head of the American Relief Administration, arrived in Berlin from Russia. Said he: " The Soviet Government is in for good. Moscow is now much like any other town. You can go to the restaurant, eat good food at reasonable prices, see a good cabaret show and drive home in a taxicab. There are 99-year leases of property; you can will a portion of your estate to your heirs on dying; there are first, second and third classes on railroads, and you have to pay fares on street cars. You can also lease your house or flat...
...American Relief Administration left Russia. In Moscow, Kamenev, Tchicherin, Krassin and other Soviet officials gave an official farewell banquet to the last of the Relief workers in the house in which General Count von Mirbach, German Ambassador to Russia, was murdered in 1918. Champagne and punch flowed freely. Among the American oil men present was Archibald Roosevelt...
Twenty-one Russian brides, including a Princess and a Countess, accompanied their American Relief Association husbands...
Reading West of the Water Tower has convinced me that warm weather and realism do not go together. The effort is like that of digesting pork chops after luncheon on the Fourth of July. What a relief, therefore, to pick up a book like Freeman Tilden's Mr. Podd. Call it what you like ? burlesque, satire, sociological tract?it still remains funny, genuinely funny, and I have an idea that many of us will go a long way to hear of and then to find a really funny book. Mr. Podd is apparently on the way to the best...