Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill was of an entirely different character. The fight in the Senate was started when dapper Senator James F. Byrnes, long rated a close political friend of Franklin Roosevelt, proposed an amendment sponsored by the Appropriations Committee requiring that no Work Relief projects should be undertaken unless the local communities concerned paid 40% of the cost of the projects, or certified to the satisfaction of Relief Administrator Hopkins that they were not financially able to contribute so much. Thus, although an impoverished community would not be deprived of Relief even if the Federal Government had to provide...
After the battle had been fought on this basis for several days, Leader Joseph T. Robinson proposed a compromise. It reduced the local contribution requirement from 40% to 25%, omitted the "pauper's oath," placed the responsibility on the President for waiving the 25% requirement for communities unable to meet it. But the Administration forces under Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky rallied to oppose this modified restriction on the spending...
...Lewis, Illinois' dudish oldster, who plays along closely with the New Deal, harried angry Senator Robinson by asking for an explanation '"why the amendment is necessary at all . . . if it is already in the power of the President to use his discretion as to the amount of local contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected to see the floor...
Insurance societies at that time generally worked on the assessment basis: when a member died, every fellow member of the local lodge contributed a dollar. Under such a system the Modern Woodmen's first benefit was paid in 1884 upon the death of Neighbor Abraham Mayer of Davenport, Iowa, from "indiscretion in eating confectionary, ice cream, etc. . . ." To his wife went...
...Fascism with ... its official press, its ventriloquist stage, is a matter of concern to men whose work demands, as the basic condition of its existence, freedom to publish. . . . The war is already made. Not a preliminary war. Not a local conflict. The actual war between the fascist powers and the things they would destroy, the war against which we must defend ourselves. . . . And in that war. that Spanish war on Spanish earth, we, writers who contend for freedom, are ourselves, and whether we so wish or not, engaged...