Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still standing, up to last week, was the latest promise of President Roosevelt and WPAdministrator Hopkins to make at least 90% good on their previous promise to have 3,500,000 jobless citizens at work by Nov. i. Last week the dole deadline was pushed ahead...
Toward solving this problem the Governor-General will contribute with his canny words, while Canadians grapple with the real problems of unemployment, loss of markets, higher taxes, the dole, and whether Canada's two great duplicating railway systems, one State-owned and the other private, are to be merged and if so, whether under the state or private capital. None of these issues definitely crystallized in last week's general election, a depressing orgy of muckraking, boos, catcalls, rubber razzberries, fist fights, suits for libel and bombastic broadcasts...
...high command seems convinced that while the Eastern masses, receiving a comparatively piddling dole, can be easily won from the New Deal next year, the agricultural West, made happy with big AAA checks, can be captured only by a strong Western farmers' candidate. Mr. Landon is certainly a Westerner. And while his not inconsiderable fortune has been made as an independent oil producer, he owns half interest in a 7,360-acre farm near Chautauqua. Governor Landon has other hallmarks of eligibility. After a series of ups & downs, he seems to have his state...
...House guest of the week was Relief Administrator Hopkins, still working on the Rooseveltian promise to end the dole, give 3,500,000 men employment...
Zero. When President Roosevelt finally got his $4,880,000,000 from Congress last April 8, he set July 1, amid a great splatter of headlines, as the date when all the nation's employables would have been shifted from local dole to Federal work. When that deadline came & went last week the new Works program stood as follows...