Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening a nation-wide drive for Community Chest funds, he announced that the Government "must more and more narrow the circle of its relief activities." warned relief agencies that "unless Federal taxes are to be greatly increased, the expenditures have to be brought within the existing tax receipts...
...though to add comic relief, this picaresque collection of individuals is rounded off with the Union Party candidate, Carleton Brett, and the hero of Little Italy, Signor Santosuosso. Although they may well be better suited for office than some of their opponents, the chance of their receiving more than 10,000 votes between them is slight...
...Edward T. Stotesbury, Barclay H. -Warburton, Joseph E. Wldener, never on good terms with Neighbor Beula Croker, protested loudly when she tried to raise money by subdividing her property and selling it in lots. In 1932 she worked hard for Roosevelt's election, for a time was county relief chairman, ran with no success for Congress. But all such activities were strictly extracurricular. For 15 years Mrs. Croker's life was spent almost entirely in court. She sued her agents, her attorneys, her creditors. She was sued by auctioneers for fees, by State governments for taxes...
...Nazi Winter Relief has 10,000,000 needy Germans card indexed. Its staff numbers 1,400 who expend yearly 400,000,000 marks ($160,680,000). To take one item, the Nazi Winter Relief distributed last year gratis 492,000 tons of coal, or one-third of the entire coal produce of the Saar Basin...
...Manhattan's Chinatown, strings of pasted together dollar bills were dramatically swallowed by a cavorting paper dragon on Double-Ten, and Chinese Ambassador to Washington Dr. C. T. Wang, whose Chinese Embassy Relief Fund at 40 Wall Street handles contributions, was able to announce that $2,000,000 has already been raised among Chinese in the U. S., remitted to China...