Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delicate problem of jockeying a Congress no longer his to ride, Franklin Roosevelt last week addressed himself with characteristic adroitness. He delivered to it a stirring Annual Message which made national defense the paramount purpose of the day. He followed his request for a major controversial item of expense-Relief-with a Budget Message which contained an uncontroversial new national defense figure-only $500,000,000 extra instead of the billion many observers had expected. This brought him to his first two problems...
...faced his first issue with Congress over Relief. In asking for a Relief appropriation far larger than expected ($875,000,000 instead of some $600,000,000), he took pains to remind the Congress that this sum was only to keep WPA going as is until June 30. Let Congress appropriate that, he urged, and apply any alterations it may want to make in Relief procedure, to fiscal 1940. Said he: "The hasty adoption of legislative provisions, to be immediately effective, which radically change the present method . . . would greatly complicate the administration of the program in the coming months...
...effect of this bracketing of shots was to make Congress responsible not only for national defense and for Relief in its name, but for the welfare of reliefers after mid-February, when present appropriations will be gone, with about five winter weeks still to come...
...Probable revolts against the Administration will be led by Senators Harrison on Taxation, Smith on Farm Relief, Byrd on Reorganization, Vandenberg on Social Security revision, Hatch on politics-in-Relief. A fight, hot and early, was promised over a bill which Democrat King of Utah filed, calling for the dissolution of WPA in 90 days and the return of Relief, still federally financed, to the States. Leaders of a movement to continue WPA but earmark its appropriations in Congress (contrary to President Roosevelt's wish), will be South Carolina's Byrnes and Montana's Murray, hitherto Administration...
Many of the middle class have been on relief, he pointed out, but they are less able to take it than the working class...