Word: doling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Hopkins, who has to administer Relief; Henry Morgenthau Jr., who has to pay for it; Messrs. Richberg, Roper, Ickes, Wallace and Franklin Roosevelt, who hope that it will stimulate recovery, are all interested in the dole. So, too, last week was the Census Bureau. Its Dr. Samuel A. Stouffer, on leave from the University of Wisconsin, announced the results of a three-year investigation in Milwaukee into the effect of the dole upon the birthrate. He counted the newborn children of 11,400 families, half on relief, half selfsupporting, but both in similar walks of life. Since some families...
Prime points on which they were, in the main, agreed: 1) WTork relief in some form should be devised as a substitute for the outright dole. 2) Substantial Government spending must continue to provide enough "reflation" to keep business from laying off more employes. 3) Al- though many billions might be bandied about in headline talk, actual expenditures must not be fantastic. 4) Something effective must be done to put the construction industry back on its feet, thereby re-employing some...
...have all heard a lot about the demoralizing effects of the dole system. If the crowd on the lower end of the picture gets a dole, why, that's terrible! And yet I spoke to a man recently who never worked a day in his life. And what a dole he gets from checks, dividends, interest payments and the like! Perhaps $500,000 to $600,000 a year. We've got to bring those two types of dole closer together...
...must not allow this type of insurance to become a dole through mingling of insurance and relief. It is not charity. It must be financed by contributions, not taxes. What I have said must not be understood as implying that we should do nothing further for the people now on relief....We must get them back into productive employment and as we do so we can bring them under the protection of the insurance system...
Engaged. Elizabeth Dole, 23, daughter of James Drummond Dole, founder chairman of Hawaiian Pineapple Co. and aviation patron (Dole Flight, 1927); and David H. Porteus, Harvard Law student...