Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fired at from the shore-probably as a hint to keep midstream lest the wash endanger a levee. The Red Cross quickly collected a $5,000,000 relief fund, began a drive for $5,000,000 more. Pestilence and curtailed water supply threatened crowded refugee camps. Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas asked the Red Cross for enough smallpox and typhoid vaccine to inoculate 25,000 persons. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas suggested a special session of Congress to provide funds for relief work; President Coolidge decided that the emergency would be over before Congress could assemble and make...
...rated among the best of New England aggregations. Tuesday the New Hampshire players lost a close game to Dartmouth by a 6 to 5 score. The Green team, however, gathered all their runs in the first two frames and were kept harmless thereafter by the New Hampshire relief pitcher...
That the government still has an eye for what is important in the daily news is shows by the action of President Coolidge in sending the Secretary of War to the flooded districts. If the work of relief is to be wholly superintended, as it should be, by the organization of the Red Cross, there is no reason why the work of prevention should be left to the individual action of the states. Meanwhile the rest of the country can be counted on to answer, eventually, the appeals of the Red Cross; but much suffering could be avoided...
President Coolidge proclaimed that "the situation is indeed grave," appointed a special committee- Secretaries Hoover, Mellon, Wilbur and Dwight Filley Davis-to cooperate with the Red Cross, which called for a $5,000,000 flood relief fund...
Said Henry M. Allen, National Director of Disaster Relief for the Red Cross: "No man can exaggerate the seriousness of what has and is taking place-[it] staggers imagination...