Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...congressmen in and say: "Boys, we've spent several billions trying to help the poor and downtrodden get on top where the big fellows are (or used to be) but it don't seem to be getting us any place. What do you think about turning this relief business around by voting a few billions and turn it over to business and industry (such as is left) and say: Here she is, boys; get busy and see what kind of job you can do making rugged individualists of yourself. Get real rugged! All New Deal rules...
...Reminded citizens of their duties to charity in connection with the opening drive of the 1939 Mobilization for Human Needs, supporting community chests which handle local welfare and relief problems in hundreds of cities...
Dennett advised that if a student really wishes to help beggars, he should either buy a book of meal tickets at some restaurant, or take the man's name and consult the files of some relief agency...
What did the hitch about the papers mean? Was Russia just going to march in without treaty formalities? With only a few minutes to spare, the Soviet Minister to Estonia finally drove up to the Foreign Office, ratifications were exchanged and Foreign Minister Karl Selter expressed his perspiring relief. Next thing M. Selter knew, the Soviet Union calmly demanded an extra Red Army base in Estonia not mentioned in the Treaty...
...performed by strong, sociable Dr. Byron Stookey in the green-tiled operating room domed with a glass observers' balcony. Sleepy-green nonreflecting arc lamps designed by Dr. Stookey spotlight the site of operation, but cast no shadow, generate little heat. Dr. Stookey performs scores of operations for the relief of "intractable" pain. Victims of agonizing, incurable cancer, for example, can usually have their last days made easy by a simple severing of certain nerve tracts in the spinal cord...