Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacle to which he referred was an 11-ft., 7-ton statue of Christ propped against the wall in London's swank Leicester Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...
...came the great Rima bas-relief in Hyde Park. Outraged Britons screamed about the lady's "hamlike hands," made speeches on street corners and smeared with green paint this portrayal of the ethereal heroine of Naturalist William Henry Hudson's Green Mansions (TIME, June...
...Father is unable to work because of heart trouble. Mother, 60, so weak from malnutrition that sometimes she can hardly walk, plods ten miles to Wrens to beg a little food. Son, 21, also suffering from undernourishment, has had twelve days relief work since Christmas at $1.20 a day. This family shares its two rag-covered, rickety beds with a young woman who had nowhere else to turn. When the reporters called, not a scrap of food was in the house. All they ever have is cornbread; the meal barrel was empty...
...Relief agencies contribute to these people . . . where blanket rules permit. . . . Ignorance and stubborn reserve frequently cause the most needy families to refuse medical aid or food to satisfy their want. Cases have been reported in which blankets and like articles, sorely needed by the sufferers, have been sold as soon as they were received from relief agencies...
...Chronicle's conclusions: The condition of Jefferson County's lowly 1% is beyond the help of relief agencies. Long-range rehabilitation, geared to individual cases, is the only remedy. "They need education not only in the accepted manner but on moral codes of civilization of which they are not a part." Treatment indicated: Sterilization, provided by a bill passed by the Georgia House and pending before the Senate...