Word: doling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more immediate problem -Relief. He had made it his peculiar personal problem when he asked and got from Congress $4,000,000,000 and the right to spend it as he saw fit. With this fat fund firmly in hand, his promise to the country was to end the dole and give 3,500,000 jobless real jobs. And by last week he was up against a hard mathematical fact: $4,000,000,000 divided among 3,500,000 jobs gave only...
...complex affair. What makes it even more so is the relatively small number of jobless who once made a living with their heads instead of their hands-white-collar folk who are too proud to repair streets, too sensitive to sit at home eating their hearts out on the dole. The relief administrator's problem is to find occupation for them which is socially useful, yet does not compete with private business. Two winters ago the nation had a sample of the lengths to which relief administrators may be driven by such a puzzle when CWA paid educated...
...urge to procreate, with such recent results as the foregoing, today provides relief administrators throughout the U. S. with one of their toughest and most ticklish problems. Twenty-two million people are on the dole in one form or another. They cost State and Federal Governments $180.000.000 a month. And they are producing a quarter of a million children a year. Relief administrators want to use scientific birth control to constrain that impoverished sixth of the population but have done nothing openly for fear of the Roman Catholic Church...
...months, however, the story has been different. The people still admire the President and want to have faith in his policies. But they also want jobs. They see from seven to ten million men still out of work, and they see a sixth of the population dependent upon the dole for support. They are asking whether this should be so after two years of almost absolute power...
...each dependent to all workers and farmers--some 15,000,000--above eighteen years of age, unemployed through no fault of their own. In case average local wages were higher than $10 a week--and in many communities this would certainly be true-- all unemployed would receive as dole an amount equal to average local wages. Taxation necessary to provide the $12,000,000,000 yearly to finance this Act would be raised by levying a higher tax on inheritance, gifts, individual and corporation incomes of $5,000 a year and over...