Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME March 7: "Between 1932 and 1937 Congress directed Reconstruction Finance Corp. to make 'loans' totaling $2,500,000,000 to other Government agencies for relief and similar purposes. Unlike most of RFC's loans, made on a business basis to private industry, everyone knew these would never be paid back. Last week, the President signed a bill whereby, to simplify its bookkeeping, RFC was directed to write them off as 'unrecoverable...
...Shaw replied: "I cannot tell you the exact date of my death. . . . You must be content to know that as I am in my eighty-second year, my number is up, and the cremation furnace may make an end of me at any moment, to the great relief of many worthy persons...
...trying to polish myself up again by sticking my nose against the grind stone here," said 36 year old Julius F. Stone, Jr., first-year student in the Law School and former relief administrator in an interview yesterday afternoon...
...turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile, the Red Cross took charge of relief work. At the flood's height 10,000 refugees were being fed & sheltered in or near the city. Focus of operations was the San Bernardino Auditorium which served as an improvised shelter...
...Testifying before the Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment and Relief, Franklin Roosevelt's close friend and adviser, Financier Bernard Baruch, fired "the heaviest gun yet brought up" against the Administration by blaming Governmental policies for the current upsurge in unemployment...