Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city will starve even though it means taking all the city's money for relief operations." So promised Cleveland's Mayor Harold H. Burton last week, but the city still had no means of repairing its relief agencies, which broke down when funds ran out three weeks ago. While 75,000 Clevelanders were getting short rations instead of checks, all 19 of Chicago's relief stations last week shut their doors with a bang. Thirty-four thousand of their 93,000 relief cases (each "case" represents about three people) got, instead of monthly checks, baskets doled...
...Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins pointed out that Cleveland's work relief rolls have jumped from 20,000 to 70,000, Chicago's from 50,000 to 120,000, in the last five months. Direct relief rolls have also bulged, but here the difficulty was aggravated because Ohio's State Legislature, due to assemble in special session next week, squabbled last winter over relief funds, adjourned without solving the problem. Chicago's Relief Administration, which gets its funds from a city real-estate tax and the State Relief Commission, had spent its entire 1938 allowance from...
...Washington last week, Unemployment Census Director John D. Biggers, whose Libby-Owens-Ford-Glass Co. has contributed to Ohio's relief troubles by discharging 4,000 of its 5,000 Toledo workers, contributed a garish reminder of the size of the relief problem. He released his final figure on the total number of unemployed who registered in last November's census: 7,845,016. This, as he pointed out, is as big as the combined population of Nevada, Wyoming, Delaware, Vermont, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, New Hampshire, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Maine, Oregon...
...listen to that. They don't even think much of the blood tests." As for the widow, whose name Dr. Bundesen kept private, 'I think she has a preference [between the men]. But she's leaving the decision to me." Meanwhile, Chicago, whose relief funds are exhausted, had on its hands the jobless men, the helpless twins, the widow and her eight other children...
...column. Ursula Parrott's column. This and That, suggests baked grapefruit as a change from soup and shellfish cocktails. John Erskine's regular department will be Men's Furnishings ("The belt question grows acute. . . ."), but for the first issue Mr. Erskine also contributes an editorial on relief and a timely piece on "A Central School for Poundridge." Uncommonly elegant sportswriting comes from sports editor Gene Tunney, author of the section on Boxing in America in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Mr. Tunney on the forthcoming Louis-Schmeling fight: "Schmeling really has no physical fortification which should prove impervious against...