Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Li Chien-hung (TIME, Nov. 10) was one candidate who tasted both the sweet and the sour. Slim, husky-voiced Miss Li, 31, a Kuomintang member for only two years, was popular for helping families in her Nanking ward to get relief and jobs. But her rival, Miss Liu Heng-ching, a dignified veteran of 20 years in the Kuomintang, pressed the claims of long and dutiful party service. What to do? Miss Liu proposed a deal: if popular Miss Li withdrew, veteran Miss Liu would serve only half her three-year term, resign in favor of Miss...
Worn-out clothing and outworn books will flow from College dorms into the hands of Brooks House canvassers this week as PBH opens a drive to collect these items for distribution in Europe. Working with the Harvard Food Relief Committee, PBH workers will visit every student room before next Thursday...
...brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord and to the praise of His holy name." Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, defined the Roman Catholic position: "The primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children; the secondary end, mutual support and the relief of concupiscence. . . . Contraceptive intercourse, whether with the aid of instruments or not, is not consummation of marriage [and is] against nature . . . shameful and intrinsically immoral." Humorist A. P. Herbert, M.P., put in his ha penny's worth: if marriage-with-contraceptive isn't marriage; then adultery-with-contraceptive...
...questioned the size of the appropriation. In the first 15 months, said Hoover, U.S. grants for food and other goods "essential to maintain life" should not exceed $3 billion, should include relief for China, Korea and Japan as well as Europe. Steel and capital goods should be shipped only on a straight loan basis. No money should be given for purchases in other nations; Latin American nations, for instance, should grant their own credits to Europe...
...obvious that Elder Statesman Hoover had missed the whole point and spirit of ERP, had sadly confused long-term recovery with short-term relief. But his words had provided a new rallying point for congressional recalcitrants. The best way to cut the ground from under them again was just such a proposition as Bevin had made: a long-range goal of cooperative selfhelp, which depended on assurance of long-range U.S. support...