Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal miners east of the Mississippi River to quit work for two weeks to "mourn the unnecessary slaughter of 55,115 men killed and injured in the calendar year, 1948, during Boyd's incumbency of his usurped office . . . Concurrently," ordered Lewis, "the mine workers will pray for relief . . . [and the ousting] of an ignorant and incompetent Boyd." The mourning period put out of work an additional 69,000 employees of coal-carrying eastern railways...
...felt it was unfair for everyone from the members of the Joint Anti-Fascist Relief Committee to Wallace voters to be termed "un-American and subversive" by Attorney General Tom Clark...
...Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn't know any more than the infidel press, so it weaseled. It put its banner headline on a House of Commons debate about a bill to provide analgesia for childbirth: COMMONS BACKS PAIN RELIEF FOR MOTHERS. Then, into column 5, halfway down, it dropped a three-inch story with the noncommittal head: MOLOTOV REPLACED BY VISHINSKY...
...Leopoldskron Center, run by Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45, gets 45,000 Swiss francs (about $11,000) from the World Student Relief Organization, and used to count on private persons to supply the rest. Now, the Seminar has assumed control, and the extra expenses...
...Restful Eyes. From the beginning, Anna Louise Strong was not quite happy with her Communist god. When she went to Russia as a relief worker for the American Friends' Service Committee, and later as a U.S. correspondent, her enthusiasm for the cause met with limited response. She tried to join the Russian Communist Party. She was refused.* Taunted a Russian comrade: "A sentimental bourgeois like...