Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London stage revue was considered daring and excruciatingly funny because one of the characters was frequently addressed as "Miss Simpson." Music hall and radio comedians throughout the United Kingdom fairly itched to utter the words "Mrs. Simpson" in any connection whatsoever, and these British funsters were still itching without relief when, last week. Miss Joan Young, author of a British Broadcasting Corp. radio revue called Masculine Fame on Parade, took her place to conduct this performance. The B. B. C. Variety Orchestra struck up. Itching intolerably, Comedian John Rorke stood by waiting his cue while the chorus sang...
...general, it is apparent that the Editors of the "Economist" have very definite conclusions as to the successes of Roosevelt's three prime objectives: Relief, Recovery, and Reform. They give him great credit for his relief program in the face of yapping critics and inevitable difficulties; they grant him little claim to recovery, and perhaps, in some fields a measure of retarding influence; and to his record on reform they give their moderate approval of everything except the N.R.A. "The New Deal" indeed deserves to be read by every person who finds his own ideas of the Roosevelt Administration...
...Tribune, this duty is discharged by Sir Robert Gilbert Van-ittart, brilliant permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office.* Last week Sir Robert's brother-in-law, vigorous British Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps, was appointed Ambassador to France, and heaved by the Nazis were sighs of relief. After Dictator Hitler took power, two diplomats Der Führer found too hard and smart for his Nazis were the then U. S. Charge d'Affaires George Anderson Gordon, now U. S. Minister to Haiti, and Sir Eric Phipps...
Much as customs inspection pains the homing U. S. tourist, it irks shippers more. For their relief and even more for the relief of U. S. ports that felt they were losing harbor business because of red tape, Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, making a limited type of free port permissible for the first time in the highly protectionist U. S. Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports...
...Cortland, N. Y., seeing a newspaper photograph of a pair of cows stranded on a raft, Farmer Harold Griswold added to his flood relief contributions of potatoes and cabbage, one bale...