Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Central Committee for Relief of Republican Spain...
...Justices to retire on full pay; a modified Court Bill, which was the ghost of the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court; a sugar-quota act which the President had promised to veto; and appropriations totaling $9,389,488,983, including $1,500,000,000 for relief. What Congress had not done was another story. Major Congressional Work Undone...
...Lewis and others had speeches pre pared. But Vice President Garner, well aware that the Bill was sure to pass eventually, had timed the start of his steam roller accurately and gauged his colleagues' reaction to perfection. Prevailing mood of the Senate suddenly became one of over whelming relief, and laughter almost drowned out the angry voice of Senator Guffey still demanding to be recorded as against the Bill. With supreme assurance the Vice President dismissed the demand by shouting back: "The Senator's statement will go in the Record as sufficient proof that he is recorded against...
...most startling characters in the U. S. art world are the Brothers Armand and Victor Hammer, one with a medical degree, both friends of Soviet Russia. Visiting Moscow in 1921 to do a few months' medical relief work in the Ural farming area, Armand Hammer ended up by staying nine years and with Brother Victor became one of the first foreigners to obtain commercial concessions in Russia, sold Ford tractors, Moline plows, later bought Russian beer barrel staves for his U. S. factories. Realizing that the Soviet bureaucracy was becoming swamped in a morass of official papers, they obtained...
...years, four historical bas-reliefs have adorned the pylons of Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge. The Defense (of Fort Dearborn) and The Regeneration (the Chicago fire) were given the city at a cost of $60,000 by the William Ferguson Fund, and the late William Wrigley Jr. laid out $57,350 for The Pioneers and The Discoverers, the latter plaque representing the landing of Père Marquette and Explorer La Salle on the site of the present city. Though Michigan Avenue Bridge is one of the most heavily-traveled in the world, few Chicagoans knew until last week...