Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What saves "Suez" from being a glorified Punch and Judy show is the acting of Annabelle. Although her role is not easy, the talented French actress brings to it a sincerity and simplicity that stand out in bold relief against the sentimental strutting of an all puppet cast. Glenda Farrell, in the latest of her "Torchy Blain" series, is perhaps an even greater relief...
Landis and George McLaughlin, counsel for Plan E, sat in the Committee's rooms during the night and early morning hours receiving calls from their lieutenants all over the city and dispatching relief to watchers to where they were needed...
...issues" have had less political effect than national events. The cost of Government, the centralization of Government, how Labor should be freed and Industry regulated have concerned practical politicians far less than such hard facts as Depression during early 1938 (and Recovery this fall), low farm prices, distribution of relief cash, the growing clamor of oldsters for pensions...
...China war local army and navy bigwigs have frequently worked at cross purposes. When the army columns belatedly arrived in Hankow last week the army commanders decided to use buildings in the refugee zone as troop billets and Father Jacquinot, after spending thousands of dollars of relief money, was ordered out. A new zone was established in the Chinese native sector on the Han River...
...divides members into three groups: 1) voluntary employed members with incomes under $3,000 a year, who pay $2.50 per person per month (children $1) for medical and hospital care; 2) the "medically indigent": voluntary employed groups with incomes under $800 a year (for this group State or Federal relief money would pay 60% of the rates and doctors would receive 50% less money for their services than in the first group); 3) unemployed and relief groups, financed entirely by State, Federal or municipal aid, or by charity, with doctors receiving 75% less money than from the first group. Specific...