Word: doling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human necessity and show them the facts that we in the Government are facing. . . . "Last April I stated what I have held to consistently ever since-that it was the hope of the Administration that by some time in November of this year we would substantially end the dole. ... It gives me a certain satisfaction to be able to inform you, and through you the nation, that on Wednesday, two days ago, there were 3,125,000 persons at work on various useful projects throughout the nation. . . . This result constitutes a substantial and successful national achievement. Slums Demolished. "Within sight...
...year was still very young when President Roosevelt launched his $4,000,000,000 Work Relief ship with the sanguine hope that 3,500,000 jobless family heads and unmarried adults could be rescued from their demoralizing Dole lifeboats by July 1, put to useful, morale-sustaining work on board. Last week the year was dying and many a hope and many a deadline for attaining that goal lay dead along...
...next major deadline, Nov. 1, came & went with the goal less than half achieved. President Roosevelt cautiously predicted that "a great majority" of the promised jobs would have been provided by Dec. 1. WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins flatly set that date as the last & final deadline for ending the Federal dole, with the idea that all 3,500,000 citizens would then be at work...
...before that deadline last week Administrator Hopkins, having shipped off some $39,000,000 to the 22 states still on the Federal dole list, announced that they would get no more, that FERA would be promptly liquidated. Whether he had made equally good on his job promise could not be told until last-minute reports were in and tallied. But in Atlanta President Roosevelt reported with "a certain satisfaction" that 3,125,000 persons were usefully at work on Nov. 27. In Washington, Acting FERAdministrator Aubrey Williams chimed assurance that all 3,500,000 employables would have relief jobs...
With hundreds of thousands of onetime coal miners on the dole and misery stalking the "depressed areas," coal mine owners claim they cannot raise wages because their combined operating profit for the whole United Kingdom last year was only ?4,000,000. The miners demand a combined wage increase of ?16,500,000 and their nation-wide vote last week authorized miner leaders to order a coal strike unless this demand...