Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unemployment Insurance Act extended the British "dole'' paid the unemployed to include jobless farm workers...
...markets in Austria, Hungary, gradually supplanted German capital with Czech, eased out Sudeten workers, filled Sudeten administrative, police and army posts with Czechs. Although the Sudetens form only 22% of the nation's population, they now make up 50% of its unemployed. Most of those eligible for the dole receive only 35? a week...
...officials were appointed to administer their affairs. Czech workers gradually squeezed out the Germans and today the region's greatest grievance is unemployment, for although they number only 22% of the population, the Sudetens comprise half the nation's unemployed, subsist on a miserable 37? a week dole...
WASHINGTON--The Senate tonight added $175,000,000 to the works relief slice of the pending pump-priming bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...
Married. James Drummond Dole Jr., second son of the founder and board chairman of Hawaiian Pineapple Co.; and Virginia Brown, Los Angeles stenographer; in Reno...