Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against a dole...
...German press, virtually without exception, was thundering against Chancellor Brüning's ''emergency decree," issued in his absence by President von Hindenburg. Its upping of the income tax, gasoline tax. tobacco tax: its slashing of the wages of state employes and the unemployment dole; finally an impression that ''Iron Cross" Brüning had written his decree with a ruthlessness fanatic & unfeeling?all this profoundly displeased the German populace...
...angry at Steelman Farrell. From Hawaii to the Atlantic, via Panama, ply the steamers of Isthmian Steamship Co., United States Steel unit, pet & pride of Mr. Farrell who has sailed before-the-mast. Last week Isthmian ships, accustomed to return from Hawaii practically empty, contracted to carry James Drummond Dole's Hawaiian pineapples direct to destination at $10 a ton, $3.95 less than the route via San Francisco. Since Dole pineapples fill 5,000.000 cases a year (125,000 short tons), 33% of the Island's total, other steamshipmen protested, wished Godspeed to President William P. Roth of Matson Navigation...
Profesor Taussig advanced the idea that the United States could be prosperous whether employing a high or low tariff system. Dean Donham declared the government must either provide dole or jobs, with business powerless to help the present condition...
...woman who has kept a job for the past ten years, who has worked, contributed to the Unemployment Insurance Fund, and still keeps on, vaguely troubled and disgusted by the sharp tricks of Dole-perverting neighbors, but never aping them...