Word: doles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stamped by the House under gag rule, was receiving its first critical appraisal. The Committee fought in miniature the battle that will be refought on the Senate floor: between 1) Conservatives who oppose handing the President $4,000,000,000 to spend as he chooses and would prefer a dole costing only half as much; 2) politicos who want to cut the $4,000,000,000 up into so many slices of pork; 3) Liberals and Progressives, many of whom would like to double the sum spent and boost work relief pay from a subsistence level ($50 a month...
Thus the first issue was settled: the Senate would not be hurried, would fight the matter out. In committee the Conservatives just missed victory when an amendment to substitute the dole for work relief failed by a tie vote; the Liberals won a temporary victory by a 12-to-8 vote to boost relief wages to prevailing rates; the Inflationists lost on a greenback amendment. But these were inconclusive skirmishes, to be refought in the Senate. Despite opposition only a major accident was likely to upset the Administration's plans because 1) its bill is in effect a compromise...
...stockbroker can see clearly, as Major Stanley does, the major defect in Britain's Dole. It has been administered by petty local boards. These are under ceaseless pressure from the local jobless. Obviously it would be more scientific, and it should be cheaper, to have National Government administer the Dole on a uniform, nationwide basis...
...Sacrilege!" In the House of Commons last week Major Stanley was obliged to execute as gracefully as possible an excruciatingly awkward and painful maneuver. National Government were supposed to be advancing with their new Dole program on all fronts. The gallant Major had orders to sound a general retreat...
...more optimistic concerning the new public works program. "At best" he said. "It is a dubious experiment. Many cities cannot and are not willing to carry the entire burden of the new program, and the $12.50 weekly alloted to each family is little better than a dole...