Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber stampings at $10 each give the British Treasury an extra $1,000,000 every year. Rather than lose this, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, now in the agony of bringing forth a budget which will balance despite an increase in the "dole" paid to British can't-works and won't-works, insisted stubbornly that the "nuisance" be continued, even against the ultimate interests of the Empire...
...York City, Robert Fulton Cutting, aristocratic Board President of Cooper Union, said that "some sort of an unemployment dole" should be handed out to unassimilable unskilled job-seekers who each winter flock to Manhattan...
Sure are the Lords that their wisdom is superior. Last week by a smashing vote they gave the dole bill a cuff and a kick, tacked on an amendment making it expire in one year?whereas the Labor Government is pledged to keep the dole high indefinitely...
...House of Lords; and second that Mr. MacDonald, with the Naval Conference on his hands, would chuck it and go to the country for a General Election, sure to win by a huge majority on the issue of whether the jobless workman should be deprived of his "dole" by the House of Loafers...
...result of the canvassing of peers old and young last week by Lord Parmoor was a most creditable compromise. The Labor Government agreed to put through the "dole" bill with a three-year limit, instead of the one year desired by the House of Lords, thus saving faces all round and en abling the measure to be wisely labeled "experimental." Said the Laborite Daily Herald, official organ of prudent Scot MacDonald...