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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief problem to speak of existed in rural Monroe County. Nevertheless, the State gave Monroe $44.43 per month per relief case. The county paid out only $21.17 per case, made $23.26 on each. Urban Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) with the highest living cost in the State, got $599 per case per month, spent $24.40 per case, had a deficit of $18.41. In 1936, 30 counties ended the year with a surplus from unnecessary relief money, while Lucas County (Toledo) had a deficit of $300,000, Cuyahoga...
...number of officials, both paid and voluntary, are conducting themselves in a manner entirely incompatible with their obligations, and those guilty of infractions will be subjected to ruthless punishment. Every official must realize that he is there for the people and not the people there for him, and during the present difficult period bureaucratic narrow-mindedness, smallness of vision, presumptuousness and autocratic manners must cease...
...shame and a sin For a Lion to go and eat Albert, And after we've paid to come...
...much as three weeks later; of septicemia contracted while operating; in Wutai-shan, China. Dr. Bethune joined the His-pano-Canadian Blood Transfusion Service during the Spanish Civil War, by his delayed transfusions saved the lives of thousands of wounded Loyalist fighters. His job in China's war, paid for by the Canadian and American Leagues for Peace and Democracy, was surgeon on the medical staff of the Communist Eighth Route Army...
...Women's clubs are boloney," growled Author Theodore Dreiser to 300 gasping members of the Los Angeles Junior League. Ordinarily charging $500 a lecture, grumpy Author Dreiser, who is still writing novels, was paid not a penny for these thoughts. Other Dreiser throwaways: "You could close every university in the U. S. and it wouldn't make any difference. You can get a degree today on the most asinine subjects you ever heard of. Most of the youngsters are sneaking and cheating their way through school...