Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calories happens to be the amount students receive in Heidelberg University, one of the five universities to which the Harvard Relief committee will sent food. The others--in Athens, Peking, East Punjab, and Salzburg--are all crammed with students suffering from equally inadequate sustenance. In these universities, some of the moral and political leadership of a future world is being formed. Today, according to the Rector of the University of Heidelberg, there is "danger of a moral and political breakdown" among students. Again, the situation in the other universities is similar...
...there any need to go into a detailed examination of the distribution methods chosen by the Relief Committee. The World Student Service Fund has, along with Care and the American Friends' Service Committee, a monopoly on thorough, conscientious, speedy, cheap, and totally non-political distribution of food abroad. It differs from Care and the American Friends in that these organizations are concerned chiefly with the aged and the very young, whereas WSSF distributes food, books, and clothing to students. Both in its arrangements with WSSF and in its organization throughout the University, the Committee has taken unusual care to make...
...World Student Fund Relief Campaign swung into action today, reports and letters describing the reception of food overseas continued to arrive at th drive's headquarters. The letters come directly from the recipients of Harvard's donation of last spring, students in Athens, Peiping, Warsaw, Vienna and Salzburg...
...letters praise the efficiency of World Student Service Fund, the agency to which Harvard sends its contributions, and World Student Relief, the agency used to distribute the food abroad. These two agencies are also used by CARE and most other American universities...
...week later on the Williamsburg Bridge. In between is an intricate, tense story involving a number of jewel thieves and two untiring detectives. The camera roams pleasantly over most of New York as the detectives close in, and Albert Maltz, the scriptwriter, has even provided moments of comic relief in his caressing tour of the city...