Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Party bigwigs in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater beamed at each other in open, reassured relief. Their smiles said: "Ah, now we've got it too." But Molotov's words, obviously intended for home consumption, seemed to strike some U.S. editors all of a heap. They splashed Molotov's boast with big black headlines usually reserved for major catastrophes...
...started the forced evacuation of a quarter-million civilians from the countryside because the Army cannot defend them, and carry out an offensive at the same time. And they wonder how they are going to live this winter crowded into mud huts, shanties and abandoned buildings on Government relief, which will provide them with less than a pound of bread and about 15? in cash a day. The huts in which they live, unlike the airfields, are not "winterized...
...week's end, four noisy investigations of New York City relief were going on. The state was investigating, the Mayor was investigating, the grand jury was investigating, and so was the city welfare department itself. City Welfare Commissioner Edward E. Rhatigan was unceremoniously fired by Mayor William O'Dwyer. His successor, Benjamin Fielding, came down with what was described as a case of exhaustion after only five days on the job and tottered off to Doctors Hospital, asking to be shut up in a quiet room...
Back into Uniform. Siqueiros next turned up in Los Angeles, where he painted a mural showing a Mexican peon bound to a cross surmounted by an American eagle. He was promptly deported. Then the Spanish civil war broke out, and Siqueiros got back into uniform with something like relief. Fighting still came naturally; he commanded a motorized brigade in the battles of Caballon, Guadalupe and La Granja, and rose to be a division commander just before the end. Back home, he was welcomed at first, then thrown in jail for eight months on suspicion of taking part in the first...
...This week a Quaker official predicted that the U.S. share of the prize money (about $20,000) "will almost certainly go into foreign relief...