Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peter W. Hoguet '37, chairman of the drive, issued the following statement yesterday: "It is hoped that each student will contribute as much clothing and as many books as possible. A large portion of the clothing is used for the relief of needy Harvard students as well as of destitute Cambridge families. During the coming winter, clothes will be needed more than ever before. We strongly urge every Harvard student to do his part in the drive...
Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 6--Overthrow of the Okada government was feared imminent today, over relief and military issues...
...contributions for the nation as a whole averaged 1% above last year's totals, were within 10% of those in 1929. But this year more than ever canvassers have met the stock protest: "Why should I give to private charity when I'm being taxed for government relief?" Stock answer: The Government supplies only life's bare necessities. On private charity still depend such important extras as character-building and leisure-time services, neighborhood centres, camps, guidance clinics, health bureaus...
...comic relief Austria, minute and disarmed by the Treaty of St. Germain, spunkily asked at Geneva last week for "arms equality...
Retorted a thoroughly vexed New York Health Commissioner: "A hopeful view of relief from this dangerous malady might be more welcome to the half million persons in the United States who acquire this disease each year than the veiled obscenity permitted by Columbia in the vaudeville acts of certain of their commercial programs...