Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live is a grimy, normally noisy district. For more than a year now Falls Road has been uncomfortably quiet. One after another Belfast's shipyards and mills have been laying off more & more men, shutting down. Of Belfast's 425,000 souls, 100,000 are on the dole. Pale men in cloth caps lounge in doorways, waiting for the visits of relief workers...
Last week President Hoover had a Relief Bill he could sign. Speaker Garner had his Masses v. Classes campaign issue. The needy had what the White House would have denounced last year as a $300,000,000 Federal "dole." Reconstruction Finance Corp. had an increase of $1,800,000,000 in its capital. Private industry and individuals had an oblique chance to borrow from the Government. Taxpayers had a peephole through which to identify R. F. C. borrowers. And the country at large had a four-month rest from Congress...
...condemning the Wilson Administration for having given the Allied nations nearly all the money the American taxpayers owned and asking not even a definite promise to pay? Is he going to lift that burden his chieftain placed on American taxpayers? Is the new deal to be a dole . . . or some form of bureaucratic collectivism? . . . The Governor may be honestly trying to give us a new deal but he is dealing from the same old deck from which William Jennings Bryan gave the American people so many 'new deals'. . . . Beware, Governor! Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Hearst and Speaker Garner may have stacked...
...Reduced by 23% the national unemployment dole...
Depression struck the second blow. Unable to borrow money for the Dominion, Premier Squires proposed to sell its greatest possession, Labrador, to Canada for only $100.000,000. Canada turned down the bargain (TIME, Feb. 29). Inevitably Newfoundland's "dole" then had to be reduced. This produced riots. Twice during the past six months Sir Richard Squires has been mobbed and roughly handled (TIME, Feb. 22 & April 18). In alarm the British Admiralty sent a warboat to St. John's, but Newfound landers, again on their best behavior, entertained His Majesty's blue-jackets so hospitably and quietly that they soon...