Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which captures the spirit of an intimate comedy, is a welcome relief from the colossal, and stupendously boring, dance spectacles. When Frod Astaire and Ginger Rogers are not delighting the eye by their dancing, Eric Blore and Everett Horton as butler and master tickle the risibilities with fast-paced dialogue. Helen Broderick, of "Band Wagon" fame, completes the triumvirate of finished comedians. The only bone the reviewer has to pick with the director concerning the whole production is that Helen Broderick was given such a relatively minor role...
...Some $27,000,000 was officially allotted for the relief of the arts: music, drama, painting and literature...
...great relief to PWA, to the College Art Association, to Architects Harvey Wiley Corbett and Chester Holmes Aldrich and to Edward Laning last week to learn that Commissioner of Immigration & Naturalization Rudolph Reimer at Ellis Island had finally approved Artist Laning's designs for murals for the dining hall at New York's immigrant station. Cheered, Muralist Laning and his two assistants, James Rutledge and Albert Soroka, hustled to get his cartoons on tempera and gesso panels as soon as possible...
Between 1931 and 1934 New York's Commissioner of Immigration had been Edward Corsi, a distinguished member of Manhattan's Italian colony. In February 1934, Commissioner Corsi resigned to take over the even more difficult task of administering New York City's poor relief. Appointed as his successor was white-haired, bushy-browed Rudolph Reimer, a serious hard-working Democrat who had retired from the coal business...
...Utah border, live a people called the Brethren of the United Order, expelled years ago from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Quietly and religiously certain Brethren have been practicing polygamy. Bothering no one, they might have continued to do so had not U. S. relief agents found it out last month. Families of Brethren, reported agents, run from nine to 15 children. Specifically, one 18-year-old had three wives. On this information County Attorney Elmo Bellinger charged into the "Strip," began serving warrants...