Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only...
Last week the law caught up with De Jesus. He was arrested, finally consented to an injunction dissolving his college as an illegal corporation; he would still face charges of the Department of Welfare for having accepted too much relief. But there was no injunction to stop his hundreds of students from using their titles and degrees for whatever purposes suited them-the man who paid $1.25 to become a "missionary," the one who paid $65 for a "Bachelor of Theosophy" degree, or the one who gave $100 to call himself "Doctor of Divinity...
...Duhig '29, is largely in the source of the children entertained. Usually parties and instruction groups take place in settlement houses in the poorer districts of Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding areas. Because of this, a great number of poor Cambridge gamins, many of whom are children of parents on relief, and who do not belong to one of the settlement houses, go without holiday celebrations...
...government is charged with responsibility for steadying and improving the economic situation of its citizens," he said. "Unemployment compensation, old age pensions, and various forms of relief have become firmly established" duties, he declared, "but equality of opportunity . . . depends on attention to . . . housing, health, and education...
...erupted with such comments as "greatest farce ever perpetrated in sports in the guise of an official poll." They wanted to know why the award, voted by the Baseball Writers' Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York Yankees, e.g., Shortstop Phil Rizzuto or Relief Pitcher Joe Page. One reason: the voting took place a few days before the end of the season, before the collapse of the Red Sox and Slugger Williams in their final series with the Yankees...