Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That question was the most important one put last week to Walter Sherman Gifford, generalissimo of President Hoover's new Organization on Unemployment Relief.† It was popped by one of 40 Dole-conscious newsmen who faced Generalissimo Gifford down a long polished table in Secretary of Commerce Lament's office. A positive "yes," Mr. Gifford knew, was an answer that would greatly please President Hoover. But the President's relief director was determined to be more than a White House echo. Carefully he replied...
...point in a national campaign. His was the first program to be inaugurated by a State for the winter emergency. It might well become a model for other Legislatures, including the national one at Washington. Governor Roosevelt had devised a formula of sup plying relief and still dodging the dole. Important was the political philosophy he put into his message to the Legislature. It had undertones which might well be come the main motif in 1932. Some excerpts...
...temporary non-salaried commission. If public work can be found, jobs will be given the needy. If not, local welfare officers would purchase and give to them "food, clothing, fuel and shelter." Declared Governor Roosevelt: "Under no circumstances shall any actual money be paid in the form of a dole to any unemployed or his family." The State fund would be apportioned according to local needs and community initiative and generosity. The State would help most the town that helped itself...
...week the War Office and the Admiralty sent telegrams to all military and naval commanders, the chiefs of the air force, suspending immediately and until further notice all contracts for military works. But here again the Laborites ran against a stone wall. Britain's great extravagance is the Dole. Liberals, Conservatives, businessmen, were demanding that it be cut. Trades union leaders and left-wing Laborites cried just as loudly that if the Dole was cut they would desert the party, kick out the Government. Cabinet meetings went on day after day. On a final Dole vote, right and left...
...Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Margaret Bondfield as Minister of Labor and Lord Sankey as Lord Chancellor were held over among the Laborites. A gaping vacancy was left by "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, the Foreign Minister, who could not bring himself to swallow the projected cut in the Dole...