Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tasks of an unusually trying week end. The railroad committee's report arrived and the President studied it at length. He sent to Congress, with a recommendation that it be given "most careful consideration," Hungary's proposal, made last February, to pay off its $1,685,000 Relief Loan in full but without interest. As this week's major move against Depression, the President roundly endorsed a plan proposed by his old adversary, Virginia's Carter Glass, to enlarge the loaning facilities of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In constant touch with Washington by telephone, the President...
...keep its jobless members under the influence of the union and to help them obtain relief, the U. A. W. last week prepared to charter a special local for WPA workers...
...Chinese Government, composed of the merest puppets. Chinese whose names mean almost as little to the Chinese people as Joe Zilch. This outfit, as the Japanese put it, will be "under the umbrella" of Nanking. The business community in Shanghai, both foreign and Chinese, exhibited no sympathy but much relief that there is now a Nanking Government which will get paralyzed currency exchanges going again. Last week the currency situation was such a desperate muddle that a few days after the native dollar was quoted at 330 per $100 U. S. it was being quoted at 450-a catastrophic fall...
Frank S. Hopkins, 30. Baltimore Sun relief specialist...
Frank S. Hopkins, 30, reporter for the Baltimore Sun. He holds degrees from Willam and Mary and Columbia, and is interested in federal, state, and local agencies of public welfare and relief...