Word: doled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barmouth, Wales, last week the British dole was justified by David Lloyd George thus: "We would have had a revolution long ago but for the dole...
...avert a riot, England's merchants, hard-pressed themselves by the Depression, began to dole out food to the hungry. More than 300 were each supplied with a ration worth $2.75. Fearful of a repetition of the raid, Lawyer Morris declared: "These people just simply got hungry. The merchants of England must either move their goods or mount machine guns on their stores...
...death." Idleness. "Unemployment is causing anxiety in Italy as in all other countries. We have a half-million unemployed at the present time, of whom 100,000 are women and 250,000 come from agriculture and the building trades where seasonal unemployment prevails. I am opposed to the dole. I prefer relief in the form of public works which substantially increase the efficiency of our national economic equip ment. The dole tends the workers to idleness." Prosperity: "I am confident that the peace of the world will be preserved, and that before long a new era of prosperity will dawn...
With 2,000,000 Britons officially "unemployed" the objective looked easy, is actually almost insurmountable. Reason: an unemployed man loafing on the "dole" is paid more than a hard-drilling British soldier...
...this purpose he wants a bond issue for $20000000 authorized and an emergency fund created to be used in the construction of public works. That he does not intend this money to be used as a dole is a tribute to his integrity and to the soundness of his ideas. He is not letting the voting power of the workers turn his head from the loss in efficiency that the dole would bring among them. The method by which he proposes to use the funds will enable the jobless to get work and thus get enough to keep themselves...