Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming in the flood. After aerial surveys the Red Cross reported some 1,500 square miles inundated in Nueva Vizcaya, 2,000 square miles in Isabela; homeless, 80,000, missing, 1,000, known dead...
...need to recall to you the fear of those days. . . . Supplies in their basements. . . . Plans to get their fortunes across the border. . . . Hideaways. . . . Homeless boys. . . . Farmers who banded together with pitchforks. . . . Powerful leaders of industry and banking . . . came to me in Washington in those early days of 1933 pleading to be saved. . . . We met the emergency with emergency action. But far more important than that, we went to the roots of the trouble and attacked the cause of the crisis. We were against revolution. And, therefore, we waged war against those conditions which make revolutions - against the inequalities...
...Harrisburg by bus, made themselves so obnoxious that Republicans and Democrats advanced $3,000,000 for temporary relief. Last fortnight the $3,000,000 were gone and the army trooped back in greater numbers. Kept alive & kicking by a hand-out of $4,000 from the State's homeless and transient relief funds, the determined demonstrators last week forced the House and Senate to agree in principle on a program of some $45,000,000 to furnish relief until next February...
...Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions except a bowl and a prayer chain, "and in the Ori ent enter some retreat or live alone, the homeless life, seeking Nirvana...
...next day, as the receding flood left an inch of slime on streets and sidewalks, banks, factories, stores, theatres, schools remained closed. It would be days before power generators, factory machines, water pumps could be dried out and set working. The dead were estimated at 57, the homeless at 135,000, the damage...