Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear is that several thousands of tenant farmers and share-croppers will be displaced and thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, with Federal or state or city governments forced to take care of them under some dole system. This is because with a cut in acreage there is no need for so many workers in the fields. It is believed this may affect 400,000 farmers and a large number of persons who are dependent upon them for livelihood...
...Weiden two brownshirts, relying on their Teutonic consciences, seized a widow, accused her of obtaining larger dole payments than were her due, marched her around Weiden with a placard upon her breast: "I have shamelessly deceived the Ministry of Interior...
...City last year 198 Consolidated Gas Co. meter-readers, repairmen and collectors on their daily rounds were bitten, nipped or chewed by dogs badly enough to need medical attention. Last week they and their 20,000 fellows were studying a pamphlet specially prepared for them by Dogman Frank F. Dole on "Dogs: How to Approach and Handle Them." Rules...
...stand to see others making a living wage." Three days later NRAdministrator Johnson leaped into the controversy to declare: "It's perfectly absurd for CWA to pay higher wages than private industry can afford to pay under codes. Government money distributed that way is practically a dole. Industry cannot give doles. Hopkins' talk about decent subsistence wages is just a lot of adjectives to me." Administrator Hopkins shrugged his shoulders, went off to see the President. That afternoon the President intimated that CWA wages would be modified wherever they seemed out of line with wages in reputable industries...
...Government's latest relief agency, Civil Works Administration, whelped with the aid of a $400,000,000 grant from the public works fund, was distributing its pay checks, thus removing 1,183,438 jobless from local charity roils. These men had been required to work for their dole on small emergency projects...