• Establishes penny lunch programs in public schools.
  • Helps settle 65,000 immigrants in port cities nationwide.
  • Teams with the Red Cross to raise a record-breaking $4 million for relief of human suffering during World War I.
  • Sponsors classes and grants scholarships to unemployed workers.
  • Brings health care to rural communities through the Farm & Rural Work Program.
  • Promotes America's entrance into the League of Nations.
  • Sends aid to Russia in response to the massacre of Ukrainian Jews.
  • Organizes the International Jewish Women's Organizations Conference in Vienna, consisting of 23 participating nations.
  • Realizes Hannah Solomon's dream of attaining women's suffrage with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
  • Participates in the Women's Division of President Hoover's Emergency Committee for Employment to provide victims of the Depression with job soliciting, placement, and creation as well as financial relief.


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