Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only one in 250 family heads in the income group of more than $2,000 yearly cannot seek work because of chronic disability. In Relief families one in every 20 family heads is disabled...
...persons on the Relief income level (less than $1,000 yearly income for the entire family) are disabled for one week or longer for every one person better off economically...
...several pretty girls with various talents as singers, dancers, and even a drum major. The last, a Miss Betty Atkinson, recently twirled the baton for the University of Southern California. While her dancing tnd twirling are not extraordinary, her face and figure are a far cry and a welcome relief from "Harvard coods...
...been required to pay their debts to the land-lords." Ordinarily, said Secretary Wallace, the landlords would carry the sharecroppers until next summer, but because of low cotton prices the landlords are almost as badly off themselves. "Local agencies, likewise, are utterly unable to provide any kind of relief. As a consequence the Federal Government is facing demands for assistance from a group for which it has never before been forced to assume responsibility...
Aroused by the growing collegiate element in the stage-door line, the dancers recently formed a "College Date Bureau," and the committee on admissions has issued a personal information blank rivaling an income tax blank in proportions. The five dollars will go to the Stage Relief Fund, it is said...