Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economically it is a plan avowed to provide relief; implicitly it intends to regiment industry...
Ahead the Treasury did not look just yet. The net effect of the 75th Congress' whopping appropriations and authorizations will not be known until it is seen: 1) how much more money will have to be voted for Relief after next March; 2) how far Government revenues fall in fiscal 1939 due to Depression II. (The Treasury's first guess, last week, was a decline of some 750 millions.) Last week President Roosevelt ordered the Treasury to undertake a tax study for the edification of the 76th Congress. In the next twelve-month the Treasury's deficit...
...added workers would be taken on the rolls at WPA's field offices. While that was happening, the more visible moves of WPA were: 1) To approve Sidney Hillman's plan for buying $10,000,000 of men's and boys' clothes for distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers' Alliance of America (national union of WPA & relief workers) and hear his demand that...
...candidacy, his loyal Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., also without consulting party leaders in Washington, announced his candidacy for Governor. And two days later, Candidate Lehman, speaking before 300 welfare officials at a conference at Saranac Inn, sounded a distinctly candid note by suggesting a purging of swollen Relief rolls, warning Spender Roosevelt that "the distribution of public moneys can destroy individual independence and group relationships...
...Columbia is Canada's California. Like California, this westernmost province welcomes visitors with full purses, turns a cold shoulder on the many jobless who immigrate in hope of work and of enjoying a comparatively mild climate. Unlike the U. S., Canada has no unified federal system of unemployment relief. Although from the Dominion capital at Ottawa come periodic donations, relief administration is left largely to the provinces and localities...