Word: doling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to lend the farmers $30,000,000 for feed and seed; the Senate wanted to lend them $60,000,000.* The Senate insisted that the farmers be permitted to buy food for themselves as well as their livestock under the loan; the House thought this would be a dole. On the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of the President's hands, 2) other Senate amendments to specify roadwork projected in Georgia and Alabama, and to authorize payment of the highest prevailing wage...
...many respects Dr. Clark's ideas on charity and his repudiation of large-scale American philanthropy, which he compares to the dole, will attract most of the attention given to the book. But an historical study, in the first essay, of the idea that prosperity is based on slavery and Puritanism is equally worthy of consideration...
With Miss Ishbel MacDonald presiding last week at a Fabian (Socialist) Society meeting in London, Fabian George Bernard Shaw predicted the fall of her father's cabinet "after the next election," flayed the British dole to unemployed: "Not only are there men who have never worked but there are children who have never known their fathers to work...
...England the business community regards with apprehension the extension of the dole under the present Labor government and a steady increase in unemployment", stated Associate Professor of Marketing of the Business School M. P. McNair when interviewed yesterday. Professor McNair has just returned from a short vacation in Europe and is pessimistic about the political and economic conditions in England for the future...
With 2,000,000 men on the dole, with steel-trap Chancellor Philip Snowden set to catch every extravagance at the exchequer, thoughtful Britons learned last week that it costs $3.20 per mi. to run the Royal Train-empty...