Word: doles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Secretary of Agriculture Hyde raised the warning cry of "Dole!" against the Senate's Drought Relief plan and thereby started the Arkansas food war in Congress. Last week the same Secretary pronounced the same relief plan "no Dole!" and thereby brought to a peaceful conclusion the bitterest issue of the session. Nevertheless the Senate had won less than the White House Administration had surrendered...
...Dole? Such pot shots at the enemy pass more or less unnoticed in Parliament, but Mr. Snowden made his own party sit up and gasp when he appeared to foreshadow a cut in the unemployment dole...
Snowden's Dole Policy. Since most Labor M. P.'s have promised their constituents more Treasury aid, not less, Mr. Snowden's speech thunderstruck his party with the conviction that it will badly handicap Labor candidates at the next elections. It was Laborite William John Brown who most completely lost his head. "This Socialist Government." he roared, "has neither the guts to govern nor the grace...
...such a measure, sanctioned as it is by Congress, is open in general attack. Besides the obvious difficulty of financing the loan, there is some real danger that it will seriously weaken the government's financial position. Also the psychological factor that a measure so perilously resembling the dole may tend to break down national confidence and stability must be recognized. This criticism is particularly applicable as the loan will be available to many men not in actual need at the moment...
...disgruntled with the Watson compromise were the Republican Insurgents. They denounced it as a "cheap evasion" of the Relief principle which Senator Borah had so thunderously proclaimed. They argued that farmers without security would not benefit at all. They predicted that Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, archfoe of the "food-dole," would never sanction the use of any of this fund for food for hungry...