Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Franklin Roosevelt was on his South American trip last December his Relief Administration raised a storm. It announced that it was going to cut WPA expenditures to $152,000.000 a month, try to cut 150,000 reliefers off the rolls, make local governments pay a larger share of WPA costs. The U. S. Conference of Mayors went into a dither, reliefers staged sit-down strikes, and Harry Hopkins had quickly to back water, announcing, "No one who needs Relief will be dropped" (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week when the House received the Deficiency Bill appropriating Relief funds...
...year, that will make drought expenses unnecessary. The proposal provides not only for a drop of 600.000 in the rolls but at the same time provides for a gradual reduction in the monthly cost per man; it assumes that we will get more money out of sponsors" [i. e., local governments...
...were still struggling too excitedly to begin counting their rosary of grief. Evansville, Ind., part of which is perched on a snow-covered bluff, looked down on a yellow sea where its business district and part of its residential district had been. There Paul Schmidt, chairman of the local Red Cross, got a lift from a passing skiff which promptly sank under him. Before a boatload of cameramen would rescue him they made him turn his profile so they could take his picture (see cut). A few miles farther down the sloshing water seemed to have no shore. In Paducah...
...village are very much interested in anybody who is 'lawing it.' . . . I had a large case recently before a justice of the peace and jury of six, in which I earned $10. The trial was held at 8 p. m. in the social room of the local fire house. My client was suing for $6.50 damages ... to his automobile. At least 100 spectators were present. [A city lawyer and I] fought our case amid boos and cheers from the audience until 11 p. m. The jury brought in a verdict for $3.50 in favor of my client, which...
...wandering boy comes home with a wife, Ruth (Tamara), a beautiful Jewish radical and labor agitator. It is not long before she ousts the old-line labor bosses in the local mill, organizes a strike. The mill owner (Clyde Fillmore) is tough, too. He imports a gang of scabs and arms 20 deputized thugs with machine guns to protect them. Ruth's crowd also has machine guns and the streets are just about ready to run with his fellow citizens blood when Druggist Cogswell gets himself appointed sheriff and tries to substitute for the Fascist way or the Communist...