Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognizing the Glasgow Scot's sincerity, Government M. P.'s made no effort at the time to have him called to order. Instead they tried to convince him that the National Government's new dole legislation will not reduce payments to the needy...
...assure those present that the directors would do their best to prevent a hasty sale of the plant, would try to dispose of it as a unit. That night nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge crawled into bed with nothing to look forward to but the dole...
Back in 1923 philosophic Frederick Head, father of five, stopped working. For twelve long years he has done nothing more strenuous than draw $8.50 every week from Britain's dole-in all some $5,000. Urged to attend free classes at a government school to learn a gainful trade, Mr. Head always replied: "I wouldn't waste my time in no school...
...until last week, when Britain's new national Unemployment Assistance Board took over administration of the dole from local bodies, was it possible to do anything about Loafer Head. Surprised, resentful, Mr. Head suddenly found himself the object of the Crown's displeasure under the new regulation providing that it shall be criminal for dole drawers not to make "honest efforts" to get to work. Swift British Justice cracked down on Frederick Head with a sentence of one month at hard labor, and all over the British Isles dolesters abruptly began to look for work...
...unsympathetic civil servant who was Sir Henry Betterton up to Jan. 1. In the royal New Year honors he unobtrusively became a baron (TIME, Jan. 7). Last week Lord Betterton bustled about new quarters in Thames House in London, organizing a staff which will total some 5,000 dole administrators. Their job will be to see that jobless Britons between 16 and 65 whose earnings never averaged more than $25 per week receive the cash that is their due "as a matter of right and decency" providing they make bona fide efforts to get to work. This makes Lord Betterton...