Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personalities. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover headed a flood commission appointed by the President. Henry M. Baker, Red Cross Director of Relief, supervised Red Cross work. One-time Governor John M. Parker of Louisiana was appointed by Mr. Hoover as flood relief director in his state, was aided by present Governor Oramel Hinkley Simpson...
President Coolidge appointed a special flood commission; as nominal head of the Red Cross, issued calls for relief funds; steadfastly refused to summon special flood session of Congress; argued that the emergency would be over before Congress could...
...Around Richland and Madison, La., the flood swept through the finest hunting grounds on the continent. Here Theodore Roosevelt and Flood Relief Director John M. Parker used together to hunt quail, deer, bears, wild turkey...
...Peoria, Ill., High School Seniors Al Landers and Frank Polkington bent over, let themselves be hit with a stout paddle at 5¢ per hit. They collected $4 (80 blows); gave the $4 to the flood relief fund; sat gingerly...
...Tarlyon. Venetia Vardon is the typical lovely creature of Michael Arlen, impossible yet plausible, stunning and elusive. At least the author has realized the truth of O. Henry's maxim that Bohemia is merely a land we do not live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing us the disagreeable things about disagreeable people in disjointed sentences. And no one would object to Venetia Vardon having loved twice except the Boston censors, who have banned the book. I am afraid...