Word: distresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outcome of the new study will be awaited with eagerness. The world in chaos looks to the universities for protection against the recurrent aggressions of economic and spiritual distress...
...Treasury unnecessary, the White House coordinated a nation-wide campaign for private contributions to local charity to sustain the needy, stressed "individual initiative," "community responsibility." But for every 50˘ thus voluntarily contributed, governments? city, county. State ? are spending $1 in tax money to relieve mass distress. If a "dole" consists of public support of the needy, countless jobless are already on a "dole...
...organization had spent $52,000,000 to help the jobless, that its funds were almost exhausted, that direct aid from the Government was now necessary. Other witnesses put U. S. Catholic bishops on record for Federal relief, described Toledo as "an extreme case of community distress," declared only 6% of New York's jobless would get help under the present system...
...more & more satisfied with himself. To a suggestion that his bill proposed a "dole," he answered hotly: "Americans must not starve while we quibble over words." Evidence lay before him from the American Association of Public Welfare Officials that only ten States were able to take care of their distress...
When the sudden shout startled millions of Germans their President was actually saying, "Let us face the coming days and their trials hand-in-hand. Let us not waver. . . . The Lord has saved Germany from deep distress before. He will not forsake...