Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steady ball player. Fred Heckel is much more at home at forward than at guard, and he showed what he really could do in the Boston University game by amassing 17 points. Homer Peabody has improved steadily, and Bill Humes is ready to work in the relief role...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt suffered his first rebuff in the new Congress today when a House Subcommittee sliced $150,000,000 from his proposed $875,000,000 appropriation to finance relief until July 1, and restricted its expenditure...
...That Federal relief recipients and dispensers alike be forbidden to contribute any money whatsoever to political campaign funds, and relief executives be forbidden to coerce or solicit such funds, or have others do it for them...
...Promising relief jobs to get votes...
Jack Garner was reported perfectly willing to see Harry Hopkins confirmed, but determined to see WPA's next appropriations chopped far down in the interest of economy, and to see Relief removed from politics. In this determination he was joined by Senators Byrnes and Adams, in charge of Relief appropriation bills, and by Representative Woodrum of Virginia, chairman of the House subcommittee on Relief...