Word: dole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the monarchy passed away a white aristocrat named Sanford Ballard Dole became President of the Hawaiian Republic. In 1900, when the Republic became a U. S. Territory, he was named its first Governor and the same families, the Castles, the Cookes, the Binghams, the Dillinghams, the Judds, continued to rule. Like southern planters before the Civil War they built up a comfortable society based economically on agriculture. Like the South, also, the mudsill of their society was cheap labor. First they imported Chinese and Portuguese, then Japanese, and, when the "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan was made, Filipinos...
Governor Sholtz passed the buck to State Relief Administrator Julius F. Stone Jr. "Reliever Stone figured it would cost $2,000,000 to dole Key West for another five years. "The thing to do," he announced, "is to make Key West so attractive as to revive the tourist trade. Key West should be the Bermuda of America...
...death by heart failure of her father, Dutch Prince Consort Henry (TIME, July 9). The two women drove at once to The Hague and sat an hour with the corpse. In this sad hour Dutch proletarians might have buried their quarrel with Her Majesty's Government over recent dole payment cuts. Instead they chose to erupt at Amsterdam in savage riots which spread through 17 districts and forced Her Majesty to order out troops with machine-guns and tanks...
Canny Dutchmen, the rioters began by looting sellers of building supplies, built high bullet-proof barricades. They screamed charges that the stinginess of Her Majesty's Government is an outrage and the recent cut of the dole to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week is a crime. A group of Communist Deputies rushed to the government offices shouting, "We demand to see the Minister of Interior...
...into every open window they saw in the strike districts. Then tanks arrived. Cr-r-r-unch-down went the workmen's barricades and bayonet work began in earnest. On the fourth night Amsterdam's hospitals were full and eight deaths had been chalked up but the "Dole Riot" seemed about over...