Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empire builder. Emile Francqui was soon serving his country elsewhere. In China where he went as economic adviser to the Government he met a young U. S. engineer named Herbert Hoover. Some years later, during the World War, he was Herbert Hoover's chief coadjutor in distributing Belgian relief. After the War his contacts with the U. S. multiplied. He was a member of the Belgian debt mission to the U. S., a member of the committee that formulated the Young Plan. During Depression he called often and quietly on his old friend Herbert Hoover at the White House...
...companion piece to "We Live on Relief" in April Scribner's there is an article by an anonymous woman writer entitled "Does the World Owe Me a Living?" More than a description of how the other half lives this article is a revelation of a mode of thinking unknown by those happy with luxuries and oblivious to the sufferings of persons condemned to poverty through no fault of their...
...reader expects relief from a surrounding of brothels, insane asylums, and disease when Bardamn arrives on Broadway, New York, disappointment is sure to be profound. Broadway is promptly described as "a running sore." The tip-off is complete when, after one or two deprecative observations on what Americans are proud to call "The Main Stem," Bardamn pops into a public toilet. Now there is a subject for you! The author gives it as many pages as Broadway itself...
...Change of Heart the triangle becomes a rectangle, with matters complicated accordingly. To Manhattan seeking careers go four young college graduates (Gaynor, Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers). Like figures on an Egyptian bas-relief, they love in profile: Dunn loves Gaynor who loves Farrell who loves Rogers who loves all the boys. When Ginger Rogers marries a rich Broadwayite, Farrell goes into a sickly decline. Miss Gaynor nurses him back to health, marries him, keeps him from sinning with sprightly Ginger Rogers, who finds consolation in breezy Jimmy Dunn. Good shot: Janet Gaynor shaving Charles Farrell...
Chicago, May 20--War-time relief measures went into effect today in the smoldering stockyards district where the city's greatest conflagration since 1871 caused $10,000,000 damage and brought injuries to hundreds...