Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME of July 20 you say that fraud and embezzlement were found in the dole administration AFTER Ford Motor Company officials cited hundreds of dole getters who were also drawing Ford pay. Additional facts are necessary to give the truth. The first and only significant embezzlement was discovered by two young bankers who became suspicious of the sudden wealth of one Alex F. Lewis, a clerk in the welfare department, who through an ingenious fraud obtained $207,000. He fooled not only the welfare administration but the Detroit Yacht Club which admitted him to membership and the Ford Motor Company...
...your July 20 issue of TIME, p. 17, article referring to the dole system used in Detroit, I beg to advise that you have been misinformed with reference to a syndicate being formed, consisting of the Chrysler Corp., Packard Motor Car Co. and Fisher Finance Corp...
...that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance or "Money Tsar" before reopening the banks partially, to pay salaries, wages and taxes only. (Unemployed persons not on the dole were allowed to withdraw $12 each.) A rousing, purely Hindenburg proclamation called upon the people to be calm, be "sporting...
Last week most of the dew, dawn and sunshine had vanished from Detroit. Its dole system under Mayor Murphy had brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy. Jobless relief had cost the city $17,000,000. Because of hard times $11,000,000 in taxes remained unpaid. It closed its fiscal year with a $14,500.000 deficit. Ten percent of the population was out of work. Thirty thousand fam-ilies-132,000 individuals-were being carried on the city's relief rolls at a cost of $1,000,000 per month. Fraud and embezzlement had been found...
Strapped for cash, the city had tried to borrow in Wall Street. But the big bankers there, hostile to the dole and Mayor Murphy's "radical methods," refused all loans. Fortnight ago Detroit turned to its wealthiest citizen for aid, borrowed $5,000,000 from Henry Ford to meet payrolls. Last week a syndicate composed of Chrysler Corp., Packard Motor Car Co. and Fisher Finance Corp. agreed to advance the city $59,500,000 to meet its debts Sept. 15 provided it economized by cutting dole allowances. To save Detroit from fiscal chaos Mayor Murphy reluctantly consented...