Word: doles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Government toyed with Windmiller Honnef's proposition, nearly six million Germans were drawing a dole of $13 per week. At Waltershausen, when efforts were made to apply a recent dole reduction of 10%, furious dole-drawers rioted, wounded seven policemen. Police fired on the mob, killed two, wounded twelve, restored order...
...something is done to provide employment and relieve distress we cannot be responsible for the orderly operation of the railroads. We refuse to take the responsibility for the disorder which is sure to arise if conditions continue. ... It would be with great reluctance that we would ask for a Dole. . . . Everything else suggested has either failed or has been denied. If something is not immediately done we will be obliged to demand a Dole. . . The unemployed citizens we represent will not accept starvation...
...nation's needy have gone through three hard winters without a dollar's worth of direct aid from the Federal Treasury. Every proposal for first-hand Government relief of hunger and distress has been damned and defeated with the cry of "Dole!" Before a fourth and perhaps harder winter comes the poor and jobless will vote in a national election. In Washington last week political principle began to bow to public plight...
...loans to private industries rather than to public agencies on the ground that the Administration could use this financial power to muster election votes. Republican Senators, generally cold to their President's proposal, were reported aggrieved at his apparent desertion of them in their "anti-Dole" fight...
...that he has not been able to cut them low enough to keep all his shoe factories busy. "That is my fault," he accused himself, "but all men make mistakes." To employes whom he has discharged or may discharge Thomas Bat'a promised a private Bat'a dole, warned that this aid will be instantly canceled the moment a recipient is found to be accepting State...