Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been applied in the most hazardous of profit mediums-the stockmarket. But of Mr. Baruch, his old boss. Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote last week: "His effectiveness as a practical economist is suggested by his own magnificent solvency." Last week before the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief Mr. Baruch had a lot to say about his country's solvency, which is currently not magnificent. He took two days to say it, and when he was through his testimony was hailed as the "heaviest gun yet brought up" against the Administration's policy, or lack...
...Completed action on the $250,000,000 Deficiency Relief Bill...
Last week when President Roosevelt signed away $250,000,000 more for relief, WPA had become just about the grimmest thing in the country. The new appropriation will be spent before June 30, bringing the relief expenditures for the fiscal year of 1938 to $1,750,000,000. Most of the additional funds will pay the wages of 500,000 more relief workers. This spring, the total on the WPAyroll will be 2,500,000-the highest in two years with the exception of a single week during the 1936 drought...
...contributed anything to a fundamental solution of the problem. Last month, WPA offered an account of what the nation has been getting for its money. Through three ERA and two deficiency appropriation acts, a total of $8,671,078,685 has been granted by Congress for relief. More than half of this amount has been allocated to WPA, making it the New Deal's greatest spending agency. Wages and salaries accounted for 85% of the money spent. Administrative costs were well under the 5% maximum allowed...
These staggering activities are today administered by Aubrey Williams, onetime social worker, whose salary is $9,500 a year. Relief Chief Harry Hopkins, who gets $12,000 a year, is conservative with the public's money, an inveterate gambler with his own. For three months Mr. Hopkins has been trying to recover from the physical effects of his appalling responsibility. Last week, reports from Florida, where he relieved the tedium of his convalescence with visits to the Hialeah race track, indicated that he would soon be ready to return to Washington...