Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Ritchie of Maryland differs from most Presidential candidates. He has a platform. Hoover, Dawes, Smith, and Hughes are all running on their records. Lowden is running on the issue of farm relief. Donahey and Pomerene are running as Ohioans. Curtis is running on the advice of his friends. Watson is running for the Indiana delegation. Willis is running for practice or for exercise. But to date none of these gentlemen has defined his attitude toward the Presidency in any great detail...
...high time that this be done. The country, premierless for more than a fortnight, was growing restive. While the politicians quarreled, conditions bordering upon famine had grown so acute in the Jugoslav districts of Herzegovina and Montenegro that the International Red Cross was reported to be starting famine relief measures which should certainly have been undertaken long ago by the Jugoslav Government...
...That music lovers in Madison, Wis., have at last been afforded relief from the stench pervading recent concerts. Madison, it seems, having no adequate house for big musical events, is forced to use the agricultural school's stock pavilion where many a lowing cow has left behind a scent-trace of its blue-ribboned presence. Citizen C. H. L'Hommediue of the Floralo Incense Co. saved the situation last week by spraying the place with a special eucalyptus formula of his own so that an audience could sit in aesthetic repose through a concert by the Madison Civic...
...mutual understanding between nations, will give a lecture illustrated by motion pictures on "Germany Since the War" at 7.15 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Living Room of the Union. He saw service overseas during the World War, and after the Armistice spent much time in Central Europe doing relief work. He is also a newspaper correspondent...
Inquisitor Walsh thundered, Missouri's Reed hammered, Virginia's little Glass poured sputtering acid, Nebraska's cold Norris heaped disdain, upon 17 Democrats who joined Senator George with evident relief. Anger replaced relief as the debate grew hot, until Maryland's elderly Bruce, who usually just bumbles along, shrilled out: "The Senate is drunk with its investigating powers...