Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farm Front. Direct relief is not suited for farmers. Instead, relief funds are to be used to finance indigent farmers who give up farming a single cash crop and go in for diversified farming to supply their own needs but not to raise crops for glutted markets. To meet minimum cash needs some may be given paid jobs working on roads and in national parks, or even repairing their own tumble-down homes. The chief effort, however, is to teach them subsistence farming and find opportunities for them to work part time in small local industries...
...destitute will get this assistance which will last for no one man longer than six months. A specific effort will be made to find work for teachers, engineers, architects, artists, nurses, etc. Destitute persons unable to work because of age or health will, as now, be given direct relief...
Died, John Alden, 73, journalist, versemaker, gth direct descendant of the Mayflower's John Alden; in Brooklyn. For the Brooklyn Daily Eagle he wrote 10,928 poems which appeared in an unbroken daily series...
...Proprietor James thinks he can pull it through alive. The 200-mile link he built in California to connect Western Pacific with Great Northern, completed in 1931, has not yet revealed its full traffic possibilities. The Dotsero cutoff west of Denver, to be finished this year, is expected to direct transcontinental traffic to the Denver & Rio Grande-Western Pacific route (TIME...
...serving his fourth term as president, Broker Hudson is head of Hudson Sons Co., a direct successor to his father's concern which once had a firm grasp on the whole U. S. salt business. Broker Hudson went west from Ohio by easy stages, helped found the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, moved to San Francisco at the century's turn. He claims that never in his 78 years of life did he advise a customer to buy or sell a share of stock, holding to the West Coast tradition that every man has an inalienable right...