Word: doled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed to cut the relief bill from $4,880,000,000 for work relief to $1,880,000,000, the absolute minimum required for a dole...
...flatly for an amendment to require the payment of the prevailing wage scale on work relief projects. The President had proposed and the Senate Appropriations Committee had approved with qualifications, setting men to work at $50 a month or thereabouts-roughly twice what they would get as a dole. The Administration had two reasons for its stand: 1) workers must not be led by high wages to seek relief jobs in preference to industrial jobs; 2) work relief at subsistence wages will double the cost of relief, but work relief at prevailing wages will add about 50% more to that...
...vignettes of life under the New Deal for landless, dole-less, hopeless share croppers 25 miles from Augusta, Ga., as seen by Erskine Caldwell...
Nancy Lady Astor turned her tart Virginia tongue last week upon Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley, gilded son of the Queen's Bedchamber Woman, who fortnight ago confessed to the House of Commons the failure of the National Government's attempt to reform Britain's wasteful "Dole" (TIME, Feb. 18). Said the Noble Lady: "Government should have stood by their unemployment scheme and corrected its defects without so much everlasting apologizing to the Labor Opposition! It was all right for the Labor Minister to make his statement in this House, but it was not necessary...
Nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge, Mass. (pop. 14.000) had nothing to look forward to but the dole last month when 104-year-old Hamilton Woolen Co., unable to settle a strike, voted to shut up shop (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week Southbridge was jubilant once more. The cloth designers had been called back to prepare their patterns for autumn. That could mean only one thing: the mill was not to close. That day Hamilton Woolen's President Richard Lennihan announced that arrangements had been made to sell the company to U. S. Bunting Co. of Lowell...