Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dole "The stark fact before us is that great numbers still remain unemployed. . . . The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral distintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. ... I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash, of market baskets, of a few hours of weekly work cutting...
...work undertaken should be useful. . . . Compensation . . . should be ... larger than the amount now received as a relief dole but ... riot so large as to encourage the rejection of opportunities for private employment. . . . Projects should be undertaken on which a large percentage of direct labor can be used. Preference should be given to those projects which will be self-liquidating. . . . Projects . . . should be selected . . . to compete as little as possible with private enterprises...
There was only one crumb of comfort for Conservatives-the last two sentences in the following passage: "If a man is able and willing to work, but can get no work, provision for his security must be made. I do not mean the dole. The dole is a rotten thing!" What he did mean, the Premier said, was unemployment insurance-that being the correct name in England for what is loosely called the dole...
...morose Haakon VII could thank his stars that in 1934 his Kingdom enjoyed the largest export business since the War, nearly double the volume for 1933. Down in Copenhagen hard-jawed Christian X felt safer because Danish workmen, mostly ardent Socialists, are now only 18% enrolled upon the dole, a magnificent drop from...
Last week there were 5,000,000 heads-of-families on the dole...