Word: doles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each for every man, woman & child in the land, to help those who need it through the Depression. It was the first bill providing direct Federal relief for the destitute, passed by the overwhelming vote of 72-to-8. Public plight had triumphed over political principle. The cry of "Dole!" was muted. Even President Hoover approved...
...suites, and the creation of an House Aid fund, has in some cases partially lessened the cost. But it is at best a paradoxical procedure, first to elevate the cost of rooms beyond the average student's means, and then attempt to relieve the burden by a kind of dole. In doing so, the University implicitly admits the contention that the price of rooms is too high...
...denounce the measure as "pork barrelism" from start to finish. He asked to be taken off the R. F. C.'s board if that agency was going to "make $50 loans to John Doe of Spokane on a second-hand automobile." Secretary Hurley flayed "mercy money" as a "dole," estimated the public works proposed for the Army to execute would put only 34,178 men to work...
...Last week funds for Detroit's municipal "dole" were practically exhausted. Its poor and jobless were advised "to go East and get a job." The city would pay their...
...Battlecry of Reaction." The new Cabinet's declaration of policy was called throughout Germany a battle cry of reaction. Declaring that "postWar German Governments have weakened the morale of the people by a system of State Socialism" including the dole, Chancellor von Papen declared that "this moral degeneration was enhanced by the class struggle with Bolshevism which, like a corroding poison, threatens to destroy our moral code...