Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrat. Last week the Senate by an overwhelming but unrecorded vote passed the Wagner bill. As they went to conference, the Garner and Wagner bills were alike only in that each called for a public outlay of about $2,300,000,000 to make jobs, stimulate government construction and feed the hungry. The principal provisions of the two bills which had to be compromised by the House and Senate conferees were: Wagner Bill Garner Bill A $500,000,000 Treas-A Treasury Bond is-ury bond issue to be sue of approximately spent on Federal public...
...bonfires out the schools. Manual labor has been a ready to waste itself for years in building pyramids as to dam the Nile. It is direction from the mind that has built granaries rather than graves. . . . This is as sure as that a million cows would not ot themselves feed a single human child...
Under its terms Reconstruction Finance Corp. was authorized to raise an additional $300,000,000 by debentures. This sum was to be lent States, at 3%, on the basis of population to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. States in turn could pass their borrowings along to municipalities to care for local distress. Repayments were provided for by deductions from Federal allowances for highway construction. Typical State allotments for relief: Illinois, $18,645,452; Oregon, $2,330,570; Texas, $14,232,652; Nevada, $222,500. The Wagner bill was forwarded to the House for action...
...feed the B. E. F. costs about 7? per day per man. Father Charles Coughlin, radio priest of Detroit, forwarded $5,000. About $2,500 was raised by exhibition boxing matches. Home-town friends loaded trucks with free supplies and started them to Washington. The B. E. F. seemed in no immediate danger of starving...
Personal interests would logically prefer to maintain the former situation under which the capitalistic minority reaped the greatest profits from economic activities and the masses got crumbs hardly sufficient to feed themselves and continue to work...