Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government can spend tens of millions taking surplus cotton, corn, hogs, tobacco, turpentine, etc., etc., off the market, why cannot it take off surplus garments? Especially when perhaps 17.000,000 citizens on Relief need clothes? Why shouldn't WPA buy $10,000,000 worth of men's and boys' cheap suits, distribute them to the needy and get Amalgamated Clothing Workers back to work, 30,000 or 40,000 of them in New York City alone...
Today's contest is the windup for the crucial encounter with Dartmouth Saturday at Hanover which will decide the Eastern Intercollegiate League race. Right hander Tom Healey, whose most recent performance was in an able relief role against California, is the logical choice to do the flinging...
...when Leader Barkley proposed that all the $1,425,000,000 provided to make WPA jobs be made available to the President for direct relief, the Senate balked. It raised the direct relief appropriation from $50,000.000 to $125,000,000, but no more. The bill, as the Senate finished it, provided
...year and a half the Mormon Church has made desperate efforts to find jobs for its members and keep them off relief. But in Salt Lake City, 81 -year-old President Heber Jeddy Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruefully stroking his beard, last week told the press that the biggest obstacle to his security program is the willingness of Latter-day Saints to be seduced by Government checks. The No. 1 Mormon admitted that he now has to be content with urging his charges who take WPA jobs to give an honest...
...prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks for $100,000 each. Out of this one mother must return to the Toronto Relief Administration $5,696 another $2,314, loaned during the tough-going days. With two mothers the judges had difficulty. One claimant had given birth to three stillborn children. Five of another woman's children were not products of wedlock. To these two maternal runners-up went $12,500 each...