Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This benign state of affairs was just too good to last. The New York World-Telegram printed embarrassing stories. Then New York's Republican state government, which contributes a lion's share of the relief funds dispensed by the city Democratic regime, began investigating. Last week, at a public hearing, State Department of Social Welfare Supervisor Bernard Shapiro lifted the racket...
...kept his mistress at city expense while his wife and three children lived on relief elsewhere. Another sharp fellow kept himself jobless, and thus on relief, by a trick of dress-he wore a fez and a flowing robe while looking for work, secure in the knowledge that few employers wanted anyone in Oriental costume...
...paradoxical indeed that the very people who bemoan the size of the national debt and have the greatest fear of the Russian "menace" are the ones who are crying loudest for tax relief. Now is the time, if ever, to pay off some of the public indebtedness. The United States can reduce its debt and support the Marshall Plan only if taxes are maintained at the present level. In fact it might even be a wise move to raise them...
Last week it looked as if New York-bound air travelers might get some relief from long waits, and the threat of stackup collisions which airmen have long feared. New York City and the state of New Jersey got together on the most ambitious airport development ever attempted -a tri-port system that might well set the pattern for safer air operations in all crowded centers. The new airport plan would be run by the Port of New York Authority, a unique bi-state agency which has proved itself one of the most efficient governmental bodies...
...chairman of the Quakers' U.S. welfare agency he received a cable Friday night announcing the award to the American and British branches. He is the logical functionary to represent the relief agency at the presentation ceremony...