Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...batting was indulged in, much to the relief of the cage caretakers, for last year when the team visited here the major leaguers hit so lustily that they drove the ball several times completely through the netting, resulting in a few broken windows. New nets have been installed this year, however, so it is doubtful if it is possible to accomplish such a feat again, even with such an array of heavyweight talent as the Sex now possess...
Representative Dunn had tried to get work or relief for the poor Parkers. The District authorities, said the Congressman, had told Parker to go back to Tennessee. When it was discovered that "this little woman was about to become a mother again," Father Parker was turned away by the Public Health Service when he asked to have his wife taken to a hospital. Finally Representative Dunn got her a permit to go to a hospital. The Mississippi Congressman continued: "She was told to go back home and there to repose herself as best she could until she came to that...
...before Speaker Byrns mustered up sufficient hardheartedness to point out that it was strictly against the House rules to take up a collection on the floor. By that time, though, Representative Dunn had $44 for the Parkers, had dealt a solid rebuke to Washington's local relief authorities...
Cunard White Star officials, mopping their brows with relief, called attention to the happy fact that in the few minutes that her engines raced full speed astern they had felt none of the vibration that has been the curse of the French Line's Normandie. Chief Engineer Llewellyn Roberts was too tactful to point out that full speed astern is considerably slower than full speed ahead...
Kindly, scholarly Rev. Dr. Henry Hayes Sweets, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South), has not held a pulpit since 1904 when he became his Church's secretary of Christian Education & Ministerial Relief. On Sundays Moderator Sweets attends Highland Presbyterian Church in Louisville, where he notes that most of the worshippers are oldish, like himself (63). On this subject, which currently depresses many another minister, Dr. Sweets sermonized last week in Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock...