Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herridge, the Canadian Minister to the U.S., resigned last week because he is the brother-in-law of Canada's defeated Premier, rich and pious Richard Bedford Bennett, long ailing in health. Said Mr. Bennett with entire sincerity and good humor, "I go out with a sense of relief, for reasons I need not define...
This Londoner concludes after much anxious research that "Fascism is Mussolini." In something between relief and desperation at his inability to formulate the essence of Fascism which so many Italians feel they have grasped by instinct, Scholar Finer adds: "The Fascist system depends on a genius, and with his passage it must pass...
...Galveston flood in 1900 she put on male clothes, shouldered a pickax, was the first reporter through the lines. Climbing over piles of corpses, she filed an exclusive story, organized an emergency hospital, got Publisher Hearst to send relief trains. Another time, disguised as a Salvation Army lass, she visited the "lowest dives" of the Barbary Coast, wrote a stirring series on vice. She covered the Thaw murder trial, interviewed everyone from Sir Henry Irving to President Harrison, visited the leper colony at Molokai. When Mr. Hearst's mother died in 1919, "Annie Laurie" wrote the official press obituary...
...born 68 years ago, Dr. Morehead is tall, handsome, white-haired. As president of Roanoke College (1908-19), his persuasiveness in money-raising gave rise to a saying: "No use going after money now. Morehead 's just been through." After 1919 he traveled through Europe working for the relief of poor Lutherans and their churches, earned the title of "best-known Lutheran in the world...