Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Harry Hopkins last week of his relief clients: "These fellows are not a lot of robots. They are 3,000,000 American citizens and they all have political views. And, incidentally, I think I know pretty much what their views are. At least 90% of them would vote for President Roosevelt if he were up for re-election...
...finance missions and schools, pay 60% toward construction of local chapels and tabernacles. And tithes are intended to pay for part of the Mormon Church Security Program, widely publicized after its establishment two years ago as a rugged, pioneering, common-sense way to get self-respecting Mormons off Federal relief...
...been misrepresented. Facts were that only Mormon tithepayers, and hence few indigents participate in the Program. No WPA worker could give up his job to get church aid. Although the church did get 700 projects under way - mining, agricultural, chapel-building, etc. - the Program was not an emergency relief venture. Yet the Program could be made to sound like an anti-New Dealer's sweetest dream, and was, by such journals as the American Banker, the Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan-not without aid from the No. 2 Mormon, First Counselor of the First Presidency Joshua Reuben Clark...
This week's [TIME, July 11] make-up (technical term unknown) was most pleasing. Delighted with the elimination of Religion. Being a person of no discrimination, I read from cover to cover and always waded painfully with boredom & bewilderment, thru Religion. The relief of not having to read it this time was exquisite...
...wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered work relief to the unemployed at home, the very much employed President would get no-work relief on the mother of oceans...