Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury bonds. Though dull as a whole, the campaign had provided just enough brickbats and pieces of lead pipe hurled by Britain's unique proletariat safely over Conservative candidates' heads. There were no bloody riots, best of all no facing of grim domestic issues like the Dole. With genial intuition and not too brazenly, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin caused the vote to be taken last week almost solely on a double question of foreign policy. Such was this double question that, however far the British voter might be from comprehending all its implications, the British voter could only...
Conditions under which Jews may or may not work in Germany under the Nurnberg Laws will be laid down later by the Realmleader in fresh decrees. Thus far all indigent Jews on the Nazi dole are compelled to do strictly "manual work," were to be seen street-making in the Capital last week, jibed and jeered at by passing Germans...
...Under the present system," Sinclair continued, "all that the business men are doing is paying out dole in taxes, which the unemployed return by spending in their stores. Thus, the national debt is rising by the billions, and these greedy business men will have to pay this debt in increased taxes...
Politics does not allow any New Dealer to love a possible Republican candidate for President. Nor does it allow WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, still struggling to fulfill the President's promise to end the Federal dole,* to love Governors who do not relieve him of relief. Last week a newshawk asked Mr. Hopkins how Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas was doing his part...
...connection with turning the dole back to the States, Mr. Hopkins undertook to have 3,500,000 unemployed on work relief by Nov. 1, a date since postponed to Dec. 1. Last week the original deadline was reached and the latest figures issued by WPA (as of Oct. 26) showed that only 1,543,000 had so far been put on work relief...