Word: doling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family that is in trouble because of unemployment; while abroad, no matter how serious the distress is, people know that at least they will have a roof over their heads and something to eat. In the United States, we have all of the bad features of the dole and none of the good features. We are depriving the destitute unemployed of the opportunity of managing their own affairs by giving them relief in the form of food orders and other specific grants. This takes from people the privilege of making decisions about the management of their home economy and reduces...
...state is the only agency that can handle relief work adequately. The question whether the state should provide relief directly through a dole or indirectly, in other ways, is less important than that the relief should be constant and guaranteed and undertaken in the interest of social justice. In order to meet the crisis a heroic effort is necessary and if the effort is to be effective it must be guided by a realistic understanding if the situation it is to remedy. The administration of public relief must be undertaken in a professional, thoroughgoing spirit...
...Threats of another march on Washington were made by a delegation of jobless seamen who called at the White House to ask for a $1 per day dole...
James Drummond Dole, president and general manager of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., which he founded in 1901, resigned as general manager in a reorganization by which the company is raising $1,500,000 new capital. His successor is Atherton Richards, treasurer of Castle & Cooke, big Hawaiian factors...
...blew off. Aroused, so the police said, by relief workers' complaints at their own meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...