Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt that those who find themselves, through no fault of their own, displaced in recurring periods of depression must be provided for by Government, with funds raised from the taxpayers. If no better method can be thought of, we are constrained to resort to the dole. But should not every effort be made to avoid this demoralizing form of public charity? The people of Massachusetts are willing to contribute to any stricken section of the country; but is there no limit...
...Washington, ?8° at Richmond, ?8° at Atlantic City, ?26° at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth, ?2° at Chicago, ?16° at Detroit. Total death toll from cold: 40. *Biggest year's expenditure for the British dole...
...facts became apparent: 1) the CWA which has in two months handed out about $2 per capita for every inhabitant of the U. S. has become the most popular part of the New Deal; 2) like the British dole this form of relief was going to be far harder to stop than to start. Mr. Hop kins himself is in favor of preserving CWA, or something like it, as a permanent measure for unemployment relief, a substitute for unemployment insurance. Other CWA Administrators predict that "it is going to last longer than most people imagine." Socialist Norman Thomas cried...
Poet Kugelmass also earns his dole by writing verse inside a 300-word vocabulary...
...watched Tasker pull himself out of one ticklish position after another, Walter began to hope that everything would eventually be all right. But even Tasker could not beat the Depression. The inevitable rumor started the inevitable investigation. Tasker's companies collapsed. More families went on the dole. Boss Tasker and Cat's-Paw Walter went to jail...