Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Allen, good Kansan and sponsor of the Kansas Industrial Court, was not so optimistic. He termed Russia " the industrial paradise of idleness." He found the peasants returning to the church; he found women wearing furs and jewels once more. But he declared that if American relief is stopped " 50,000 helpless people in the Black Sea region alone will perish...
...will be filled by F. S. Hill '24. The former is expected back in the line-up next week, however, and will play in the Yale game. Coach Slattery has not yet decided who will start on the mound, but Bemis is the most probable choice, with Herrmann as relief pitcher...
...Navy. He ruled that allowances to " indigent parents " of army and navy officers are illegal, and made his ruling retroactive; so some officers will have thousands of dollars deducted from their future pay. Secretaries Weeks and Denby are powerless and must wait till Congress reassembles to get relief for their subordinates. Mr. McCarl's ruling was based on the fact that in some cases the privilege had been abused to get extra pay for officers whose families are well...
...invention, the work of M. Belin, it is now possible to send and have delivered an autograph telegram. The sender of a telegram has only to write his message on a revolving cylinder covered with paper. Special ink is used which makes the words appear in slight relief; a delicate needle then strikes the obstacles made by the letters, is jerked upward and interrupts the electric circuit. These interruptions are all recorded at the other end and result in an exact copy of the written telegram. The machine is now being placed in all French telegraph and post offices...
Died. Horace M. Kilborn, 57, retired senior Vice President of the National City Bank of New York, of heart disease in Manhattan. He rose from a bank runner to a posi-tion in which he was one of the leading bankers in the group who brought relief to the money market in 1907. In one of the Liberty Loan campaigns he was said to have raised $10,000,000 in 36 hours...