Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descended from the pulpit of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church to go into politics, Dr. Clee had organized two of the largest adult Bible classes in the U. S. He became Speaker of the State House of Representatives, in 1935 forced repeal of a State sales tax for relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely...
...philosophy of the play is expressed in the title. The substance of the play is the ludicrous madness of the Sycamores, and here it is that the genius of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman finds its full play. There is very little serious relief between one laugh and the next. The plot of the play has to do with the skepticism of one of the daughters. She thinks that she'll have to give up her beau because his family is decidedly different from the Sycamores. But he is soon won over to the happy-go-lucky system...
...finally obtained. In Denver, at the annual convention of the Western Association of State Game & Fish Commissioners, Ira Noel Gabrielson, rotund present chief of the Survey, hefted himself to his feet to explain what had happened since his bureau took the money, largely drawn from relief and work-making budgets, and really moved into action...
...mere fraternity, the G.O.A.A.A. was formed by a German-born contralto named Elizabeth Hoeppel, onetime of the Chicago opera, who among other things wanted the U. S. Government to provide more relief for jobless singers. Contralto Hoeppel's union offered little to the Tibbetts and Swarthouts of the musical world. It appealed to the modestly-paid singers of troupes like the touring San Carlo Opera and Manhattan's Hippodrome company; it signed up 280 of these, got them a closed shop and a $40-a-week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also...
...last moment, was cursed by a Socialist who escaped in his place. From then on, Mansell's dissolution was a study in descending discords. Although readers will be impressed by the authenticity of his story, they are apt to finish it with something of the same relief they might feel at getting out of jail themselves...