Word: dole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain, militant Conservatives have been pounding Scot MacDonald to decree an immediate election. Their reasons: 1) The National Government's 10% cut in the dole will be felt increasingly as time goes on, discontent meaning more & more Labor votes the longer an election is delayed. 2) The rise in internal prices due to the National Government's taking the pound off gold means that Britons will soon pay more for bread and meat, may swing toward Labor in their wrath. 3) Conservative strategists think present days of crisis are the ideal time to convince...
President Lowell's refusal to permit Harvard athletes to become commercial dole-subsidizers by the transfer of the Army-Harvard football game to the Yankee Stadium is the only answer to an unwelcome proposal. Nor would the President have been able to justify allowing the Harvard football team to take the chance of becoming a political pawn even at the center of the universe...
...Dole. The Unemployment Insurance Act, or Dole, was passed in 1920 and later liberalized. By 1928 unemployment had increased so rapidly that the Dole alone was costing the country $100,000,000 a year. The cost last year was nearly five times that much...
Seethings. Not all Britons took their new burdens as quietly as Chancellor Snowden suggested. Outside the Houses of Parliament little groups collected under their ringleaders shouting in unison "One, two three? HANDS OFF THE DOLE!" and "One, two, three?WE STAND FOR THE WORKING CLASSES, DOWN WITH THE RULING CLASSES!" British bobbies did not charge but nudged them out of the square...
...Minister Sewall received the transfer of the islands' sovereignty to the U. S. from President Sanford Ballard Dole of the Hawaiian Republic...