Word: doling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany v. Rotters. Last week New Yorkers were edified to learn precisely how Tammany leaders collect on the patronage they dole out. Miss Annie Mathews, onetime (1922-29) Register of New York County and now leader in the same Democratic district with big fat-faced Martin J. Healy, whose indictment last year for accepting a $10,000 bribe in return for a judgeship began the Scandals of New York, addressed a League of Women Voters meeting, startled the community by declaring innocently...
...England [with its Dole] is the only land," he cried, "where unemployed men and women are not standing in bread lines, eating at soup kitchens! In America there are 8,000,000 unemployed, in Germany 5,000.000, in France...
...girls. President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Wellesley College complained that the seven colleges represented at the luncheon gave education.equivalent to that offered by seven highest ranking male institutions, but received only one-tenth the males' endowment. Said she: "The women's colleges are asking not a dole, but justice...
...doubting reporters Mr. Cella showed photographs of himself and his sister Mrs. Paul Hippolitus, posed with British royalty on the liner Oropesa which carried T. R. H. to South America (TIME, Jan. 26, et seq.) "I joked the Prince of Wales about Britain having to resort to the dole system," said Mr. Cella, "and he came back with this remark...
...dole is abused in England like Prohibition in the United States...