Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsequent election. Convinced that his relief formula of local self-help was sound, he set about enlarging its scope, enlisting Big Names to increase its prestige. No less than the rising tide of joblessness, he was combating a growing Congressional demand for direct Federal aid - for a Dole...
...formal announcements were made, but the London grapevine carried fairly reliable accounts of what the Labor leaders were proposing. The May report suggested, among other things, a drastic trimming of military, school and police salary budgets, and a 20% reduction in the Dole. Any tinkering of the Dole would be suicide for the Laborites, might be more than even the Conservatives could tackle. Commented Economist John Maynard Keynes in The New Statesman & Nation...
...Salary and dole reductions would merely aggravate the present situation by adding between 250,000 and 400,000 to the total of unemployed, and would produce a net reduction of only ?50,000,000 instead of the estimated ?120,000.000 deficit in the budget." Next suggestion was a program of Equal Sacrifices for All. All fixed income-bearing investments including municipal bonds were to be taxed 1%. As a "patriotic loan" the 5% Government War loan bonds were to be converted to 4% or 4½%. The total thus saved would be matched by an equivalent cut in Government salaries...
President Hoover last week worked on Work. To get a running start on Congress where dole demands are sure to appear next winter, he held conference after conference on unemployment and relief. From the Treasury he got a report which showed that $453,000,000 had been authorized for 758 public building projects, that at least $300,000,000 worth of this work would be actively started before snow flies. To the White House, Secretary of Labor Doak brought another report showing that in the last four months the U. S. Employment Service "by combing the highways and byways...
...reduction of 20% in all doles, an increase in contributions by workers and employers to the dole fund...