Word: doled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received from Sir Henry Bucknall Betterton, Minister of Labor, precisely the sort of bill to "reform" the British Dole which might be expected from a graduate of Rugby and Christ Church College, Oxford, and a member of the arch-Tory Carlton Club...
...Henry's bill made Laborites see red and swear purple. It would take discretion in dole cases away from the local boards appointed by Britain's municipal councils, many of which have just been captured by Labor in sweeping gains at the last municipal elections (TIME, Nov. 13). A central government board, staffed by civil servants, would administer a much restricted dole, based on division of the jobless into three classes: 1) "the occasionally unemployed"; 2) "the chronically unemployed"; and 3) "the unemployable destitute" who would get only such relief as is provided in the Poor Laws established...
...there will be an end to all this. The dollar low is accompanied by an unemployment insurance high as 4,000,000 men are added to 12,000,000 now on the British dole or its predecessor. When Mr. Bull finds himself buying food and clothing for twenty-odd million men in government workhouses and training schools, he will for one thing be less interested in the menace of foreign cutthroat competition than in the necessity of importing the necessities of Life on an Island by the most likely means at hand, monetary or otherwise. CASTOR...
...schools longer than with business and trade. This year, therefore, will probably be the most difficult year of the Depression as far as schools are concerned." Though many a conference has voted to urge Federal aid-notably one at Teachers College which went so far as to advocate a dole for all pupils until they find employment-the U. S. Government regards the difficulties of the schools as purely local problems. Commissioner Zook can offer no cash help. But, like a kindly, keen-eyed, plump-faced uncle, he may give advice, put at Education's disposal a vast amount...
...girls in Alsace-Lorraine. Later she did much the same in the Philippines and China. For the past eleven years she has headed Philadelphia's University House, a settlement resembling Henry Street. She is the National Federation of Settlements' unemployment chairman. She has studied unemployment insurance (the Dole) in England and found it good. She would institute cash relief in place of U. S. charity commissaries. She has presented such views before Congressional committees. Henry Street folk were agog last week to behold the objets d'art which Miss Hall brought with her, from China, Mexico...