Word: doles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, he met a crisis. to accept its resignation. And a young King can scarcely take that high-handed line. While the Queen groaned and her mother murmured Swedish prayers, the Premier decided to risk a vote of confidence on his program of deflation, reduced taxes and smaller dole payments. Vexed, a few Liberals split off from the Catholic-Liberal coalition and the Catholic Premier went down on the first bill by the narrow vote of 83 to 79. He sped to the Royal Palace, bent on resigning with his Cabinet. By that time the Queen had reached her crisis...
...toughest city west of Suez is ardently, definitely Socialist and will take no dictatorship from Paris. Despite the Government's best efforts, export trade with the colonies, life blood of the port, has slumped. A local irk is the fact that, of all the Marseillais on the dole, a large proportion are jobless Italians and Rumanians. Nationality has nothing to do with the qualifications for French unemployment relief. A dismissed wage earner or salaried worker who has practiced one calling for six months, has been a resident of one city for three months, can collect...
...billion, Administrator Ickes had set aside 2.2 for PWA projects. Not more than 251,000 men had been given work directly. As Great Britain could testify, the straight dole had proved less expensive, more effective. With $400,000,000 from PWA funds, 4,000,000 jobless had received CWA chores and a livelihood for three and a half months. Even the CCC provided a better employment buy than PWA. With $323,000,000 from PWA, CCC had kept 300,000 young men busy in the woods since last summer...
...British dole, instituted in 1931, will be restored July 1 as will half the salary cuts which all government servants from King George to the village postmen took at the same time...
...Congress, will include not even a token payment on Britain's War debt to the U. S. The two most insistent demands are for a lowering of the income tax at least sixpence in the pound, and restoration of the 10% cut in the Dole which was adopted three years ago. Politically it will be almost impossible to do one without the other. Even though unemployment dropped by 117,000 last month, restoration of the Dole alone will cost $65,000,000 or two-fifths of the entire surplus. There remain restoration of the sinking fund payments suspended last...