Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mussolini, Stalin has the habit, nerve-racking to his henchmen, of asking them first what they think. They may try to guess what he wants them to think, but inevitably Stalin succeeds in digging out much mental meat. He then sums up, gives his decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned and big-mustached, last week asked small-boned, small-mustached Anthony Eden what he thought of Adolf Hitler. Thenceforth...
...East St. Louis, 111., Mrs.Cleveland Piper, 38, mother of six, gave birth to triplet girls. The Cleveland Pipers are on relief...
...Kennys would go cold & hungry were it not for Canadian relief...
...urge to procreate, with such recent results as the foregoing, today provides relief administrators throughout the U. S. with one of their toughest and most ticklish problems. Twenty-two million people are on the dole in one form or another. They cost State and Federal Governments $180.000.000 a month. And they are producing a quarter of a million children a year. Relief administrators want to use scientific birth control to constrain that impoverished sixth of the population but have done nothing openly for fear of the Roman Catholic Church...
Last week, by reporting the honest concern of relief workers over the num-ber of relief babies, the United Press and the Associated Press caused a burst of fury among pious Catholics. Rev. Ignatius Wiley Cox, professor of ethics at Fordham University, was roused to the extent of threatening a boycott against newspapers which dared to hint that birth control might remedy the situation. Cried he: "Is it logical or even fitting for Catholic:parents to introduce into the sanctuary of the home newspapers which by their editorial policy, their news emphasis and news selection, and their columnists, aim repeated...