Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hector Dowd is slated to get the call for starting hurling duties against the Crimson today with Johnny Desmond as his battery-mate. Bill Cerny, victim of the tenth-inning splurge on April 15 which netted Harvard eight runs, and George Smith are ready to do relief work if Dowd fails to go the route...
...travel the full nine innings if Johns, Lupien, and some of the other "big stick" boys can put the game on ice early, because it is essential that Big Tom be well rested for the all-important game at Hanover Saturday. Slim Curtiss is first in line for relief duty...
...stamping. In the midst of the uproar the leader of Cornell's swing band leaped on the platform, saxophone in hand, and began to jam. As Cornell's undergraduates realized that they had been summoned not to a real war but to a fake, they fell in relief to singing pacifist songs...
...Turners-nine in all-are Negro sharecroppers, who clear about $50 a year. Thinks Grade: "De gover'ment's got no business a-payin' out relief money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till...
...months ago W. T. Couch, regional director of the Federal Writers' Project, sent his best writers out to get the life stories of a typical cross section of Southern sharecroppers, landlords, millworkers and owners, relief workers, storekeepers, etc. No editorializing was allowed; stories were to be told mainly in the first person; the results were to be judged on "accuracy, human interest, social importance, literary excellence." Result: something new in sociological writing, a 421-page volume of 35 such true stories to be published May 20. Already exciting advance comment (Charles Beard: "As literature more powerful than anything...