Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Free lodging houses were opened by the city. Thousands of destitute families were put on the municipal relief list. The dole was advanced to its largest U. S. flowering. The fame of Detroit as a jobless haven spread and it was all the police could do to keep out the bums and tramps who flocked thither. Mayor Murphy was hailed on speaking trips about the country as the only U. S. municipal executive who had really sponsored a practical, inclusive relief program. Last spring at the Progressive Conference in Washington he got a thunderous ovation from Senators and representatives...
With the British Dole fund already $437,000,000 in debt last week, Scot MacDonald's Government asked authorization from the House of Commons to borrow another $121,500,000 from the Exchequer...
...demanded last week roughly equals half the cost of the Royal Navy for a year. The House of Commons promptly voted the borrowing of this huge sum 283 to 236. That no British party dares to risk loss of votes by abolishing the Dole appears from the fact that when last in power the Conservatives (now its chief opponents) not only did not abolish the Dole but did not even curtail it though they had complete control of the House of Commons...
...predecessor of Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer: "To ask a British Socialist Government to ... put its funds into solvency is like asking a fish to climb a hill. That is not what he is for; he is not made that way. . . . Lax and lavish expenditure on the Dole . . . is good electioneering...
Intoxicated by his own aptitude at phrase-coining, Mr. Churchill declared that Britain is heading straight for a "Government of the Dole-drawers, by the Dole-drawers and for the Dole-drawers." Above these Churchillisms the Daily Mail printed a cartoon showing the benches of the House of Commons prophetically occupied by vacant-eyed bums (Dole-drawers). Towering above them but ignored, loomed the futile ghost of Abraham Lincoln...