Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks in the picture but a 16-year-old runt. Now 4 ft. 6 in. tall, nearly toothless, prematurely aged and jobless for most of the past 14 years. John Michael Cassidy muttered that on Britain's dole a man does not get enough to marry and have children. "I love kids," added the King's Runt wistfully. "So did King George...
Insurance ("The Dole") to include agricultural workers by passing through second reading a bill under which jobless farmhands, previously denied any dole, would receive a dole considerably less than that of the urban proletariat. Labor M.P.'s demanded dole "equality for farmhands" but finally abstained and the vote...
...Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much. If a worker is shown by the so-called "means test" to have more than an absolute minimum of income he cannot draw dole payments from the State. Year after year Jock McGovern asks to have what the State pays the Royal Family readjusted in the light of their income from investments. Cried Jock last week, "No means test is applied to members of the Royal Family! Why should it be applied...
When the year began President Roosevelt and his aides thought $880,000,000 would be enough to taper off the dole. The year's total was approximately $1,322,000,000. Grand dole total since...
Prime relief problem last week was whether the dole could be ended simply by saying so. Almost a year ago Harry Hopkins ordered all states and communities to shoulder the burden of their unemployables by Feb. 1 (TIME, Jan. 7). When he issued that same order last week, the question remained as to what the Federal Government would do if some states and communities were unable or unwilling to obey. "When some of the people of a great and wealthy country are suffering from starvation," President Roosevelt declared at Atlanta, "an honest government has no choice...