Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge chapter, in addition to aiding Cambridge families, giving out clothing and carrying on an extensive program in life saving and first aid, contributed nearly $25,000, 14 boxes of clothing, and 10 boxes of food in the emergency flood relief drive last spring. Throughout the country similar action has been taken; always the Red Cross has been the first to answer the cries of distressed thousands after floods, fires, and great disaster...
...spitting John William Bulow, first Democrat ever elected Governor of South Dakota, went to the Senate six years ago. He will be there no longer, for Republican Chandler Gurney, operator of radio station WNAX won his seat in a startling form reversal with the slogan "Take Politics Out of Relief." Every other Democratic seat in the Senate appeared safe, including that of J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Most notable new Democratic voice in the Senate will be that of Representative Joshua Bryan Lee of Oklahoma, elected to replace blind, anti-New Deal Democrat Thomas Gore. A famed orator...
...should be rendered more intelligible, but not discarded in toto. The principle of collective bargaining must receive fuller recognition and better mediation machinery found for industrial disputes. The social security program, and particularly the fiscal stewardship of the government, must be revamped. In these things, as in relief and public works, definite, workable plans must be substituted for general charges. Similarly, the Republicans must make specific their programs for peace, neutrality, and the limitation of war profits, make definite their retreat from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, their objections to out-Stimsoning Stimson in the Pacific...
With his speech, the boos began again, creating a deep, ominous undertone in every burst of cheers. Nominee Landon fought back with loud voice and waving fist, hammering on nearly all his familiar themes the Constitution, the Supreme Court, the American Way, Spending, Regimentation, Relief Corruption, Taxation...
...hard to single anyone out as outstanding on the Crimson team, but mention must be made of the three "iron men", Captain Jim Gaffney, Al Kevorkian, and Bob Green, the entire left side of the line, who played the full sixty minutes without relief. Gaffney, who lost 11 pounds during the encounter, dropped in his tracks when the final whistle sounded. Kevorkian was named the outstanding lineman on the field by Fritz Crisler immediately after the game...