Word: dole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly what "agricultural rehabilitation" meant nobody knew for sure. Democrats were sure it covered food loans. Republicans did not specifically deny this, though the Administration was emphatically on record against the "dole" principle which is what it said feeding U. S. citizens would amount to. Declared Senator Watson: "You can't rehabilitate farms with dead farmers." Speaker Longworth held the money could be used "for anything." House Leader Tilson kept obstinately repeating: "It's not a dole. Remember, it's not a dole...
...face of deadlock, Senator Borah proposed a compromise of $15,000,000 to be used solely for Drought sufferers. But this found little favor with the Democrats. And Republican House Leader Tilson said: "In connection with the proposed $25,000,000 dole, there is no place for compromise...
...simply proposing to deal with a condition which has again and again been presented to the Congress of the United States. . . . When before . . . when there has been a fire or a flood or an earthquake, has there been talk about establishing a dole? In no sense does the dole system apply...
...Gloomily received Minister of Labor Edouard Grinda's announcement that 17,500 persons are now on the French "dole." Two months ago the number was less than 2,000, year ago it was 1,100; but prosperous, gold-hoarding France has suddenly begun to feel a slight pinch from the world boojum of "Depression." Instant Reaction: The State Railways offered reduced fares to foreign laborers desirous of leaving France. Expulsion measures were mooted...
...second thought the careful Welshman, who always leaves himself an "out," added that "even better than the dole" would have been a system of employing the unemployed on public works. "I be-lieve," he proclaimed, "that there is no justice in allowing even one man to starve through no fault of his own while there is a crust to spare in the nation's cupboard...