Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...health and his struggles with Pennsylvania's relief funds, the last of which was exhausted last week, deterred 69-year-old Governor Pinchot from the sort of slashing personal campaign he generally makes. That did not impede energetic Mrs. Pinchot's activities in his behalf, as last week's sleigh ride testified. She has always been willing to dramatize the Governor's social welfare programs by picketing, speechmaking, visiting the slums. These activities, undertaken in a thoroughly genuine spirit, have resulted in considerable unpopularity for the couple among their own social set, but have created...
...people, finally united and standing beside and behind you. No measures of force or despotism can separate us." He denounced the "separatist traitors" who had fled from Germany to the Saar to escape the Nazis. He stormed and pleaded for Nazidom's case: ''Our winter relief campaign has proved we are pursuing practical Christianity, and we therefore are justified in checking attempts of the Church to meddle in politics." He promised that if Germany wins the plebiscite it will modernize the Saar's old mines, sink new ones and find new markets. Afterwards leaders...
...author has in mind the power of human faith in the providence of God, and by exemplifying its force in the proper characters, throws into puny relief the petty human science of the learned professor. The novel is therefore of considerable interest as an example of the neo-religious tendency in certain modern French and German writers, affording certain relief from the monotony of the steady paganism of the contemporary novel. It is, at the same time, intrinsically fine. The author squeezes quite respectable and unhackneyed drama from the rather obvious situation in which he lays his story...
...Wilson is trying all three possibilities, with variations. His work tied in with self-help co-operatives which sprang up during Depression for barter of goods and exchange of services between unemployed. There are today some 340 of these organizations in the U. S. Since last summer Federal Emergency Relief Corp. has made grants of working capital to more than half of the total, has helped them to establish co-operative industries. As such industries were needed to supplement the incomes of Director Wilson's subsistence homesteaders, the two movements interlock...
...herded their livestock into barns, circled them with smudges. Still others, too late, found their horses and mules choked, sucked, poisoned. By the week's end nearly 1,000 horses & mules lay dead in their tracks, and desperate farmers were crying to Red Cross and Government for relief...