Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been an editor on the WPA Federal Writers' Project for more than three years. I take work relief because I need it but I want permanent work...
Many of the Congressional guests were visiting the White House for the first time that night. Many of them were to give Franklin Roosevelt a rough reception the very next evening when the 76th Congress chopped $150,000,000 off their host's Relief Bill...
When the subject became WPA, he agreed that his deputy, Aubrey ("Keep our friends in power") Williams, had been "indiscreet," insisted that Mr. Williams was "a very great man" entitled to at least one indiscretion. He refused to apologize for his administration of Relief, admitted that had he the same road to Tavel again, he would not make any political speeches...
When the Congress heard President Roosevelt's special message on Relief last fortnight, requesting an additional $875,000,000 to operate WPA from February through June 1939, some of the biggest spenders on Capitol Hill widened their eyes. That would be spending at the same rate as in June of last year, when WPA plunged in to meet Depression II, now superseded by Recovery. With whoops of economic righteousness, the House of Representatives last week fell upon the President's WPA request...
...House where the Administration is still supposed to have a majority of about 100, this bill was passed, 397 to 16. It was the first Relief appropriation under the New Deal which the House has reduced below White House estimates. Representatives swelled their chests with pride...