Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer this old fortress of personal good works turned with the times as its directors chose to succeed Founder Addams as head-resident an efficient, practised public charitarian. She was Charlotte Carr, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau. A tall, hefty, genial spinster who studied at Vassar before the War, Miss Carr left her job as employment manager of Knox Hat Co. in 1923 and soon became acting director of the New York Labor Department's Division of Women in Industry under Frances Perkins. After that she served as director of Pennsylvania...
James Keen, 26-year-old photographer for the Associated Press, has a reputation for always striving for the unusual. Assigned to cover the Ohio-Mississippi flood last January, he spied a refugee Arkansas mother suckling her baby in a relief station, took a human interest picture called "Lowland Madonna" which won him wide praise and Editor & Publisher honors. Three weeks ago Photographer Keen was rushed to Warren County, Ga., whose farmers complained that Glascock County cotton growers were wooing away their Negro cotton pickers with higher wages and whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P. Hogan had acknowledged that some Warren...
Mingalone scudding along 600 ft. above. Rain had soaked his clothes, brought the balloons down-to 600 ft. Rifleman Mullen jumped from the car, chanced a shot at the balloons 25-ft. above Mingalone's head, missed. His second shot punctured two of the spheres. To the great relief of the rescue squad, Mingalone thereupon settled earthward. But at this point the floating cameraman, library scissors in his teeth, attempted to climb to a ring five feet above his head to saw free some more of the bags. Numb from the cold and soggy with rain, he tangled...
...shells a day-while the Asturians still had munitions. For many weeks the city and its garrison were entirely cut off, every man limited to three quarts of water a day for drinking and washing, a loaf of bread and some beans. Eleven months ago a Rightist relief column from Grado on the west was able to chop through a corridor 18 miles long, in some places only 1,000 yd. wide, to bring men, munitions and food into Oviedo. Still besieged on three sides was Oviedo last week, and Miguel Aranda, now a general, was still its commander...
...Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pioneer virtues are thrift, diligence, discipline. Last year a "security program" was launched to take 85,000 Mormons off Federal relief, to Mormon leaders a distasteful institution (TIME, June 8, 1936). Since then, jobs have been found for some 23,000 Mormons, the Church has taken over the support of 30,000. Most of the idle were given agricultural work and 24 big regional warehouses have been built to store produce which is the result of redoubled Mormon husbandry. In and around Salt Lake City, 125,000 Mormons were urged last...