Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cruise back East by way of the Panama Canal, the President had selected a pair of ill-assorted guests: PW Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes and WP Administrator Harry Hopkins. Messrs. Ickes & Hopkins have for months been scrapping like a pair of tomcats over projects for which Federal relief money should or should not be spent (TIME, April 8, et seq.). As to why the President wanted these belligerents along on the section of his journey supposedly devoted to pure pleasure, observers offered a choice of three reasons: 1) the Presidential sense of humor will secretly be tickled...
Iowa last week had cause to review its official policy of not giving birth control advice to families on Relief. Seven years ago John Slattery, 64-year-old teamster, met a 17-year-old girl in the slums of Omaha. They went to Kansas, got married, moved into a tar-paper shack in Council Bluffs. There they produced three daughters, who were placed on arrival in the city orphanage. Month ago, Mrs. Slattery, robust but not brilliant, bore twin daughters. Her jobless husband, now 71, announced himself still fit for a day's work, claimed he was looking...
After the dangerous jamboree was over, His Majesty announced with relief that he had "demonstrated to skeptics that the Imperial Ethiopian Government exercises complete control over the supposedly restive warriors, who have exhibited a degree of obedience which has confounded their critics and surprised their friends...
...receive any Relief last year? All answers are to be guarded in strict confidence...
Died. Ernest P. Bicknell, 73, vice chairman of the American Red Cross, longtime director of disaster relief (San Francisco quake & fire of 1906, Sicilian quake of 1908, many a Mississippi and Ohio Valley flood, Wartime operations abroad); of heart disease; in Washington...