Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's needy have gone through three hard winters without a dollar's worth of direct aid from the Federal Treasury. Every proposal for first-hand Government relief of hunger and distress has been damned and defeated with the cry of "Dole!" Before a fourth and perhaps harder winter comes the poor and jobless will vote in a national election. In Washington last week political principle began to bow to public plight...
Senate Democrats under Arkansas' Robinson brought forth their first party plan for direct Federal aid to plain citizens. It was endorsed by such men as Alfred Emanuel Smith, Owen D. Young, Bernard Mannes Baruch. The plan: 1) raise $2,300,000,000 by a U. S. bond sale...
President Hoover, champion of private charity, was not slow in seeing the perilous possibilities of this plan as a Democratic campaign issue. He summoned Senator Robinson to the White House, thanked him for "opening the way for united action," made a counterproposal. He was ready to reverse himself on direct Federal relief if the Democrats would let his Reconstruction Finance Corp. handle the whole job. The Hoover plan: 1) increase the R. F. C.'s public borrowing capacity from...
...result of this policy the prestige of the Council has followed a downward path during the past year. Too often its decisions have been instigated by direct suggestions from the College office. Seldom if ever has any constructive work been carried on by the Council's initiative. The general tone has been that the Council is responsible to the officers of the University, and not to the student body...
...choice of Richard Scudder Neff '33, of Chicago, Illinois, to head the Junior ushers for Class Day, was announced last night by E. A. Mays '32, chairman of the Class Day Committee. Neff will appoint eight assistants and 85 other ushers to complete the quota of juniors who will direct the Class Day program...