Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embarrassing political questions which he suggested the Progressives answer. He asked, among other things: Should the 18th Amendment be repealed? Should the Government undertake the ownership and operation of railways? Should the Constitution be amended to deprive the President of veto power? Should the country adopt the dole system...
Question: Should the country adopt the dole system...
What does Edward of Wales think of the British "dole"? Officially no member of the British Royal Family has thoughts upon so controversial a subject. But in Manhattan last week one Alphonso A. Cella, genial proprietor of a flourishing Sixth Avenue delicatessen store, told the world what H. R. H. thinks of the dole...
...would wander nocturnally among the poor and jobless of the city, sleeping and eating with them as public wards. Thus, when a committee of unemployed called at his office to complain about conditions in the city's almshouse and demand free food, clothing, rent, streetcar rides, and a dole of $15 a week, Mayor Mackey was well prepared to exclaim...
...present dole policy, as Mr. Snowden had already made clear, will cost some $275,000,000 if continued through the coming year. Of this, $75,000,000 is the State's regular contribution to the dole fund, and $200,000,000 will be technically "borrowed" by the fund from the Exchequer. Such borrowings already total some...