Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Belgians who never knew the War have especially good cause to be grateful for Herbert Hoover. The difference between the generosity of thousands of donors and what cautious Administrator Hoover considered the real need of Wartime Belgians left the Belgian Relief Fund with a whopping surplus of $25,000,000 when the books were closed in 1919. This was split three ways: $9,000,000 to rebuild Belgium universities, $6,000,000 for a foundation for scientific research, $10,000,000 for exchange scholarships between Belgium...
...current war, mission boards have been operating on an emergency basis, have been unable to formulate long-term policies. In general: 1) their missionaries are remaining at their posts or moving to areas where they may be especially useful; 2) their chief problems involve transportation and maintaining medical relief stations: 3) tHeir future problem is the incalculable one of restoring wrecked establishments. For their emergency needs, at least half-a-dozen of the principal U. S. churches have launched money-raising campaigns...
...United Lutheran Church, whose hospital in Tsingtao, Shantung has been carrying a heavy load during the war, appealed for relief funds in January, but has not increased its annual budget of some $25,000. Since last autumn the Methodist board of foreign missions has collected $61,000 above its budget, about one third of what it needs. Lately missionaries of the University of Nanking (in which Methodists and four other denominations cooperate) made a remarkable 1,000-mile trek to West China Union University in Chengtu, a three-week trip by boat past Hankow and through the Yangtze gorges. This...
What is to be done? Well, there are many elements in the recovery program but all are directed toward a better balance of prices. The Farm Act, the Housing Act and expanding relief ought to help...
Tommy's screen debut cost Producer Selznick $1,250,000. Of this, Tommy's share was $100 weekly. To his father, Michael Aloysius Kelly, Tommy's good fortune meant relief at last from the difficulties of supporting a family on a WPA salary; to Tommy it meant at first more excitement than he had ever dreamed of. His supporting cast was a group of typical Hollywood child players-Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher), Jackie Moran (Huck), David Holt (Sid Sawyer), Marcia Mae Jones (Mary Sawyer), Mickey Rentschler (Joe Harper). Least professional of the lot Tommy's performance...