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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relief Administration figures for the total cost of relief during 1934 were $1,497,339,603 of which the Federal Government put up $1,069,333,771 or 72.3 per cent; State governments 12.6 per cent and communities 15.1. The contribution of the national government to the total expended in a state varied from 99.9 per cent in Florida to 45.7 in Rhode Island...
These two examples indicating the extremes of state dependence on Federal aid during the past year also point out correctly the attitude of the two sections of the country. While the six New England states nearly matched federal relief expenditure contributing an average of 45 per cent of all the money spent, the six Southern states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana averaged a contribution of 3 per cent of all relief outlays...
Though the certificates are traded like a common stock, no investor has ever received one cent in dividends. The trustees have always applied the income from oil royalties, leases and the sale of land and lots to buying in and canceling outstanding certificates. Last week the trustees reported that income last year was up 48% to $458,000, of which only $41,000 was from land sales. More than half the income was used to buy in certificates...
...questionnaire circulated in one of the houses asked whether the students wanted a new ruling which would allow house members to borrow books for reading in their rooms. Despite the affirmative wording of the questionnaire, almost 50 per cent answered in the negative, because the realized that under such an all-inclusive plan the House library would become another Widener. Nevertheless, the response, which may be assumed to be representative, clearly demonstrates that there is a strong feeling in the houses that at least some books should be lent out for room...
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