Word: reliefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Congress is the consideration by as large a number of students as possible of the legislation pending in the present session of Congress. Major issues now up in Congress will be discussed in eight Committees based on the committees in the National Congress, including education, social security, relief, civil liberties, Wagner Act, health, agriculture, and foreign policy...
...Bayard Clarke '40, and the exaggerated rhumba of Charles D. Dyer III '39 and Peter Pratt '40 that the play derives its humor. And it must be said that these specialties, and particularly a conversation which John Johansen '39 carries on with a cow, come as a welcome relief from the almost too-perfect, too-beautiful body of the play, which in places occasions the audience a little embarrassment...
Quick to add heat to the President's pressure were C. I. O., which called loudly for haste by the Congress, and the Workers Alliance (union of unemployed and reliefers), which announced a march to Washington of 100 delegates representing 800,000 Southern WPA workers for a protest meeting this week. WPAdministrator "Pink" Harrington went up to the Capitol to testify in detail about his needs, armed with State-by-State figures on the impending layoffs. These maneuvers worried many a Congressman. On others they had an opposite effect. Apostles of Economy were goaded into balkiness. The first skirmish...
...subjects for the tables are: I. The United States and Latin American Relations; II. The United States' Policy Toward International Trade; III. Social Security and Relief; IV. Government and Transportation Problems, and V. Pressure Groups in a Democracy...
...meant what he said. When a British food freighter, the Stangate, was intercepted by a Franco warship and escorted toward a Rebel port, the British destroyer Intrepid overtook the convoy and forced the freighter's release. The Erica Reed, U. S. relief ship to Loyalist Spain, moved out of Valencia unharmed...