Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bible, and the man himself deserves a greater place in U. S. hearts than Warlord Sung. He is Yao Chen-yuan, 80-year-old Chinese Christian, sole known survivor of the four native messengers who got through (and the dozen who didn't) with messages to Tientsin asking relief for the besieged legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion. Disguised as a beggar, Yao made the 90-mile trip on foot through country overrun with Boxers who were killing every Christian-Chinese or foreign-they could find. Captured many times, Yao always talked himself out. For his heroism...
...April 1935, Congress appropriated four billion dollars for work relief, and the word "boondoggling'' rushed headlong into the U. S. vocabulary. Same month, the U. S. Supreme Court again overruled the Alabama courts on the Scottsboro case, finding that since Negroes had been "systematically excluded'' from the jury rolls, the defendants had been deprived of their rights under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Governor Bibb Graves firmly declared: ''Alabama is going to observe the supreme law of America...
...Jones, who bought a house and cow with $1,600 she received as compensation for the deaths of three sons who worked in the Gauley Bridge tunnel, claimed : "Shirl's lungs was all gone when they took them out." Later she complained: "We get two dollars a week relief, and I earn one dollar a week takin' in washin'. That helps buy feed...
...Others scoffed. Others withheld judgment. Results of tests at the Murray and Leonie Guggenheim Dental Clinic reflected general experience. According to Director John Oppie McCall results on five children were "good," on three "fair," on two "not good." Some private patients made news by claiming that they got no relief whatever from Hartman's Solution. Two possible explanations: 1) compounds prepared by volume instead of weight; 2) incorrect application by the dentist...
Among the purchases were: from the Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund a Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...