Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could break through the Southern barrage to bring their bill to a vote had grown dim indeed. It disappeared altogether as the Senate reconvened this week when, with the filibuster going into its sixth successful day, "Cotton Ed" Smith abruptly closed it to his colleagues' intense and unanimous relief by producing his farm bill...
...While hordes of moppets in San Francisco's Chinatown did a thriving business shining shoes, promising to turn over their nickels to the China war relief fund, their elders gathered in St. Mary's Square to gaze at a massive, glittering simulacrum of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Christian scholar and republican hero who ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided...
...dues, donated $50 to the Chicago strike, prepared to demand that the city keep children and organized charities from cutting in on their business. Said Harry Morgenstein, the union's business agent: "If the country doesn't want the families of about 300 junk collectors on relief, something will have to be done to stop this unfair competition from organizations like the Salvation Army...
...member of the Fifteenth International Brigade, Bates served as political commissar for the loyalist armies on several fronts. Revealing the hardships which he had witnessed during the early stages of the siege of Madrid, he insisted that no one could criticize the relief which the Russian munition shipments brought to those in the city...
Intending to toot her horn briefly last night at the intersetion of Linden and Mt. Auburn Streets, a woman driver was distressed when it continued to blow for exactly two minutes and 30 seconds. A passing chauffeur finally silenced the racket, and lusty cheers of relief could be heard the length of the Gold Coast...