Word: doled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trickle of unemployed began sifting in from Budapest's industrial suburbs toward the Inner City and the Municipal Park. With the noon whistle, when thousands of factory hands threw down their tools, the trickle swelled to a river. Socialist and Communist agitators appeared magically, shouting for government dole, free bread lines, work on government projects. Squads of mounted gendarmes moved nervously up and down the avenues...
...established Tycoon-Associates are: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, John Pierpont Morgan, Adolph S. Ochs, Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, Owen D. Young, Martin John Insull, Julius Rosenwald. The farflung scope of the new endowment was reflected in such names as H. Gordon Selfridge of London, James Drummond Dole of Honolulu, Hubert Fleishhacker of California. Samuel H. Halle and Oris Paxton Van Sweringen of Cleveland, Richard Pickering Joy of Detroit...
...Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, commander of the British Grand Fleet (1914-16), later first sea lord, Admiral of the Fleet and governor-general of New Zealand (1920-24), demanded to know why the thousands of British workers who sit idle receiving the unemployment dole should not be made to work for this money building battleships. "Treaties do not of themselves always give security and safety," he cried. "In the view of one who has been responsible for Great Britain's security in critical days, that security is gone! . . . I am anxious to know...
Hard-squeezed British taxpayers who already contribute over $65,000,000 a yea to the unemployment dole winced as ' screw threatened to turn again last week. A special committee of the potent Trade Union Congress, meeting in London, blandly manifested to the Labor Government that the dole must be increased by paying the unemployed five shilling per week for their first child, three shillings for each succeeding child, from birth to the age for leaving school. A joker in the bill was the fact that illegitimate as well as legitimate children would draw the allowance. Agonized Liberal and Conservative...
Obedient to the Trade Union Congress the Labor party, according to announcements last week, will debate the baby dole" at their October caucus...