Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a deficiency bill providing $250,000,000 to provide relief to the end of fiscal 1938 (making the year's total relief appropriations...
...which his Commission is expected to grant the railroads. Congressman Lucas of Illinois, fresh from announcing his candidacy for the Senate seat held by William Dieterich, solicited support for his campaign. Aubrey Williams, Administrator of WPA (vice ailing Harry Hopkins), discussed the spending of the new quarter-billion-dollar relief appropriation...
...mood of mingled relief and regret Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy of the U. S. Maritime Commission wrote President Roosevelt last week: "I should like to report in relinquishing my post that the ills of American Shipping had been cured. . . . Candor compels me to say, however, that the shipping problem is far from solved...
Smiling pinkly, the only living ex-President of the U. S. reached Brussels last week on his first visit to Europe in nearly 20 years. Every Belgian paper, from Communist to Rexist, dropped its bickering to honor Herbert Clark Hoover, Belgium's Wartime Relief Administrator, with fulsome editorials. Every member of the Chamber of Representatives rose in his seat at word that Herbert Hoover had crossed the frontier. Dinners and receptions were held by the Foreign Office, the University of Louvain, the College of Burgomasters and Aldermen. The Belgian Government issued a new stamp, bearing the portrait...
...return Herbert Hoover laid wreaths on the tombs of King Albert and Queen Astrid, visited the Royal Palace, forgathered with veterans of the old Commission for Relief in Belgium, said: "I am happy, really happy, to be in Belgium again...