Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Harvard's embarrassing union trouble, bubbling over with threats and accusations a month ago, was now quietly fermenting in the stew of the State Labor Relations Board appeared as only temporary relief in the six-months-old tension last night...
Herbert Hoover tried to ease the pain of liquidation but the voters wanted complete relief. So they elected the other candidate. Franklin Roosevelt ditched his economy platform and did what any other man would have had to do in the same position: he gave the U. S. what U. S. wanted-a heroic economic shot...
Criticizing the New Deal, he said that relief at its best was "only 40 per cent efficient, which is inadequate to support the health and morale of the people. In New York City there are some 500,000 living in tenements condemned in 1901; in Philadelphia there are 10,000 outside toilets. People lead such lives because they couldn't do otherwise...
Nine Lawrence errors contributed to the Yardling victory as the Samborksi team pounded two enemy pitchers for 11 hits, while Jack Shwede and Charlie Brackett, who went to Shwede's relief in the eighth, were allowing Lawrence six knocks. The Crimson infield was guilty of four misplays...
...months ago the Catholic Worker founded a Catholic Union of Unemployed, whose head is another onetime Communist, 30-year-old Tim O'Brien. Most C. U. U. members are old, and ineligible for relief because they are transients. The C. U. U.'s program, like that of the Catholic Worker, is intended to comply with papal teachings, "to bring all men back to Christ." Specifically, it advocates: a back-to-the-land movement; worker-ownership and "equitable distribution of the fruits of man's labor"; public ownership of public utilities; parish cooperatives, co-operative hostels and workshops...