Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin Express" is an American film and all must still be for the best; the Russian alights from the jeep, picks up the card, smiles for the first time during the picture, and waves goodbye to his new friends. The fear gives way to an overwhelming glow of relief...
Americans were responding. Item: a carload of clothing for Europe from the students of Missouri's Park College. Item: 40 home-made wash dresses shipped off by the Ladies Relief Society of the Mormon Church in Indianapolis. Item: a triple boost in the number of CARE packages sent abroad last year. The plight of Europe had touched the hearts of men, women & children in the U.S., a nation which had come from Europe...
...speech took Bishop Oxnam, standing short and solid on the stage of huge, dismal Mechanics Building, two hours to read. He reviewed Methodist gains since the General Conference of 1944 ($27,011,243 raised for world relief and reconstruction; a record one-year gain of 1,063,734 new members). He restated the traditional Methodist stand against "the liquor traffic" and its "advertisements that seek to associate whiskey with success rather than with the gutter." He deplored the growing tendency of Methodist-founded universities and other institutions to break away from their church affiliation. Then he came to the main...
...White, whose freshness and beauty remind us of an old ideal we once had, oh, many years ago. After the Dickens movie, "Quiet Weekend," with its rather ordinary people, should be as welcome as the flowers that bloom in the spring, and just as worthy of notice--not for relief, but for acquaintance...
...memorial colleges, Gandhi restaurants. In a Durga temple, an image of Gandhi now stood among the Hindu gods and goddesses. An enterprising manufacturer brought out the "Gandhi Cigar." The Congress Party planned a huge memorial fund (talked-of goal: $300 million), to be spent on such Gandhi causes as relief for Untouchables and village sanitation...