Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete agreement with Critic Stein, but for different reasons, were the members of the New York County Lawyers' Association, who thought the program implied that poor people could get no relief at law because of the high cost of litigation. The Chicago Bar Association's Public Relations Committee Chairman Mitchell Dawson raid he thought that the program exploited "human misery for commercial purposes . . . encroaches on the practice of law . . . undermines confidence in the courts whose judges lend themselves to the scheme...
...collection of sheep horns, plaster relief maps, Indian blankets, rock specimens, framed photographs, stuffed animals, miners' picks and other objects assembled during the past 20 years, the Yosemite National Park Museum owes its present attractive two-story stone building to a $75,000 grant in 1924 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. Besides the necessary offices for park naturalists, guides and officials, sheep horns and blankets have filled most of the rest of the available space, yet by order of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the museum must now find room for these 198 paintings, most...
Died. Peter Norbeck, 66, South Dakota's onetime (1917-21) Governor, long-time (since 1921) Senator; of heart disease complicated by cancerous tongue and jaw; in Redfield, S. Dak. Insurgent Republican agrarian, he early advocated the equalization fee and debenture plans for U. S. farm relief. He got Republican President Coolidge to spend his 1927 vacation in the Black Hills, in the 1936 campaign switched to Democratic President Roosevelt...
...from 92? to $1.01 per lb. In London, where one can speculate in dried flies and ant eggs, an all-time high was set for copra. The New York Journal of Commerce reported a rise in balsam copaiba, a tight market in gum benzoin and "no sign of any relief in the shortage of eucalyptus...
...peddles drug supplies. Claiming not to have received a cent from her father's $2,000,000 estate since it became involved in litigation in 1931, she complained: "I'm down to my last rags. We have nothing. I've applied for home relief but they laughed at me when I told them I was one of the Ebbets. . . . I even tried to get a job at Ebbets Field but they won't let an Ebbets in there." Moping about her cold parlor in Montclair, N. J., Miss Ada E. Ebbets, 69-year-old sister...