Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asking too far in advance. We don't want to get into any controversies at the start. Our problem is to fight unemployment distress and not to waste time fighting theories. If a community finds itself unable to raise adequate relief funds, I should think that a job for the county and, after the county, for the State...
...President Hoover did not wait until late autumn before preparing for a hard winter. In June he inaugurated his moratorium plan as a world business stimulant. This he followed up by requesting all Community Chests, through their national organization, to survey joblessness, determine well in advance the "load of distress" they would have to meet. As before, he summoned Big Business to the White House for advice and comfort. Said he reassuringly: "The problem of Unemployment and Relief, whatever it may be, will be met." Before him loomed the A. F. of L.'s prediction for the third winter...
...White House Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot sent a letter requesting the President to call a special session of Congress for Unemployment relief. Wrote he:"Wages are decreasing. Distress is acute . . . you have yourself asked for appropriations by Congress for relief of the needy in distant parts of the world. It would seem to be most opportune that you should do no less for our own needy here at home." Flaying his Governor for such a demand, Pennsylvania's Senator David Aiken Reed retorted, as an Administration spokesman: "Governors should not and must not evade their responsibility...
...Governor Roosevelt announced that he would recommend to the special session of the New York Legislature this week "certain definite and necessary measures for the relief of distress and the alleviation of unemployment." Meanwhile New York City was preparing to appropriate $20,000,000 as a relief starter for the winter...
President Hoover, attempting to estimate the national charity which will be needed next winter (see p. 8), last week announced: "There is a test, and a very positive test by which the success of [relief] can be determined. That is, the effect of distress upon public health. I have some years of experience in dealing with problems of distress and relief, and we have always tested the efficacy of relief by the reflex in public health...