Word: doled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow to the jaw silenced bleeding Sir Richard as he was about to address his assailants. He listened quietly while they demanded an increase in Newfoundland's dole, "or we'll pick you up, Sir Richard, and throw you out of that third-story window! And we want more food for the needy...
...proposal by New York's Senator Wagner, wise to joblessness, was that the money be apportioned to States on the basis of their unemployment registry in the 1930 census. Observers sensed that the Senate was groping desperately for a plan that did not smack of the politically fearful word DOLE...
Investigator Knickerbocker found 15,000,000 Germans on the dole, wrote touchingly of abject poverty in the Red quarter of Berlin in striking contrast to gay night life around the Kurfursten Damm. In the town of Falkenstein, Saxony, he found half the population on the dole; in Thuringian villages the spectre of starvation. In Essen there was the ever-present fear of a new French invasion of the Ruhr, overshadowing the threat of Communism. Every-where Hitler's power was rising. Nearly three-fourths of Heidelberg's students were Nazis. Germans, facing ruin, were almost unanimous in demanding...
...limit the use of Federal Reserve credit by speculators; to increase branch banking; to create a corporation to liquidate closed banks. ¶ Received from the Committee on Manufactures a favorable report on a bill by Wisconsin's La Follette to appropriate $375,000,000 for direct Unemployment Relief ("dole") by the States. ¶ Adopted a resolution by Wisconsin's Elaine instructing the Attorney General not to compromise the Government's monopoly suit against Radio Corp. in a consent decree...
...that, too, England has a medi cine. Last week the country knew that the Ministry of Labor was keeping 175,000 of the 2,600,000 dole-drawers busy for three-to-six month periods in "reconditioning camps." Joan Fry Lakeman, famed tennist. was directing a Society of Friends program which would furnish gar den plots, seeds, tools to another...