Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washingtonians give the main credit for the idea of artists' relief to Muralist George Biddle, War veteran, Harvard law graduate. Early in 1933, recalling a former painting expedition in Mexico, he wrote enthusiastically to President Roosevelt of the hundreds of young painters in the U. S. who, with Government cooperation, could produce as vital a school of mural painting as had the young painters of Mexico...
...thymol solution will give temporary relief from dental pain if the tooth is hollow and permits the solution to penetrate deeply...
Medical men in Germany would of course not think of using thymol as a substitute for novocain, although the public is using it widely to obtain temporary relief, when the dentist cannot be reached, particularly in rural districts. Naturally the dentists know this, but frown upon the practise because people will not see the dentist as often, as long as they have a harmless and convenient "pain killer" in their medicine chests...
When Franklin Roosevelt became President, his cheery, mobile face was a delightful relief to White House cameramen weary of recording the frozen gloom which had become Herbert Hoover's face during his last two years in office. In his turn President Roosevelt, determined to set a Presidential high in frank, free, friendly treatment of the Press, had Secretary Early give the photographers a White House room to loaf in, proved most patient and generous in allowing himself to be snapped in all manner of unstudied, and sometimes thoroughly unheroic, attitudes. Though presumably annoyed, he made no public remonstrance even...
...Ford and Chrysler selling about 92% of 1935 cars, the little companies have hoed a hard row. Last week the Hupp plant was closed and Hupp President Vern Drum had resigned. Willys-Overland secured a court order allowing it to build 15,000 units, partly to keep labor off relief rolls...