Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Aid. $6.7 billion, chiefly for ECA and to support the Army's relief program in occupied areas. China aid was cut from $350 million to $49 million. The President warned that additional funds would be required under the proposed North Atlantic Alliance...
Through the next three years he saw many a hard-working Dakotan come to poverty through no fault of his own. Merchants and farmers, caught in the same trap together, turned to the Government. Relief checks saved the town and the family business. Said Humphrey later: "I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college...
Gangrene & Thin Gruel. Last week when his transfer was announced, pink-cheeked Father Gannon stretched back from his littered desk with feelings of relief and regret. At 55, he still had plenty to say about education; he acknowledged that he had not accomplished all that he wanted in his 13 years at Fordham. Thinking back on it, Father Gannon remarked that his assignment had been "interesting" and "constantly varied" but there had been drawbacks. He had felt "illiteracy climbing up my legs like gangrene," seen his own writing turn to "thin gruel." Moreover, there had been little time for reading...
Luis Amescua of Winthrop House and Mexico City; Mexico Central Bank Scholarship; Freshman Jubilee Committee, 1945; Winthrop House Committee; Winthrop House Debating Team; Junior Steering Committee of the Pan-American Society of New England; Harvard Relief Committee...
...Dayton, Ohio began a work-relief program, the first since WPA days. Already 50 people were being paid $1 an hour for leaf-raking and weed-cutting in the city's parks, and applications were coming in at the rate of ten a day. City Welfare Director E. V. Stoecklein blamed it all on factory layoffs of unskilled labor...