Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was not more of a stink about the relief deadlock in Cleveland. Relief funds in Cleveland continued to dwindle, approximately 16,000 unemployed (ablebodied, unmarried, childless couples) were dropped from food lists, left to feed themselves, somehow. Cut to crusts were the food allowances of families with children...
...central railroad station, freight yards, post office, and at the west harbor (navy yard, transatlantic piers), but mostly hit apartment houses blocks away, shattered the windows of their own legation. Aiming at the city's water supply, they hit the new Olympic Stadium. They killed scores of women & children, put out the city's lights, pocked the airport and factory section, wrecked the new Technical Institute, but in two days of bombing did not succeed in impairing communications. Thermit incendiary bombs* set the west end of Helsinki ablaze. Other prime targets were the ports of Viipuri, Kotka, Hang...
...Enhancement of State subsidies for cultural needs and reorganization of schools, to insure the possibility of attendance at schools to children of workers and other needy people; also solicitude of every form for the development of public education, science, literature and the arts in a progressive spirit...
...point of view, the fact that Britain still has less than 1,000,000 men under arms, whereas France has more than 5,000,000, means that as yet British women simply have no idea of what war can mean in feminine sacrifice and struggle to support home and children while father holds the Maginot Line...
While snotty-nosed Arab children stopped scuffling in the dust to gape and wonder, a disguised Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's Arab owner not only turned down this princely offer but refused to sell at any price-and was promptly arrested. Disemboweling the old camel, police found it had been forced to swallow zinc cylinders containing narcotics by Arab smugglers who recently have been driving a surprising number of decrepit camels...