Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pondered majority & minority reports, submitted after two years of investigation by the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance (i. e. "the Dole...
...nothing more sensational than a liberal expansion of the present system of R. F. C. loans to States to relieve local distress. The $300,000,000 fund will probably be doubled and red tape cut so needy States can get more money quicker. "There will be no direct Federal "dole." A moderate public building program, without "pork." will be continued. Across the land will soon spring up a coordinated system of Federal employment agencies...
...majority report (Conservative-Liberal) signed by Chairman His Honor Judge Holman Gregory, K. C. (Liberal) will probably be whipped into law by the Lords & Commons. It provides for drastic dole cuts, reducing the expenditure from an anticipated £84,600,000 next year...
...Prime Minister seemed to despair of the dole, deplored "created work and saw hope for recovery only in his long postponed World Economic Conference which he said ought to meet "before Christmas." (Chances are slim that...
...primarily to be a training in independent research, since the scholar's aim is not merely to master the present body of knowledge, but to increase it. Ideally, many courses, now open to graduates ought to exclude them, since such courses frequently take a year or half-year to dole out information which the student himself could assimilate in a fraction of that time. (History courses are notorious offenders in this respect.) At the worst, such courses ought to direct the graduate to fruitful subjects of original research; these are frequently remote from the main body of the subject...