Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Herter spoke first, and said that although he admitted that the sales tax as a tax was poor, that it was the only out for the Legislature in securing an increase in taxes to cover the overbearing relief rolls...
...there is to it. Next!" But the door did not open. When an assistant and Patrolman Carmody opened it, they found Harry Barck clutching his chest, his last client standing white-faced near the wall. Ironical was the fact that during the interview a postman had delivered an $8 relief check at Joseph Scutellaro's house, more ironical, the weapon with which Joseph Scutellaro, by his own confession, had dealt a mortal wound: the long spike on which Poormaster Barck stuck rejected applications...
...though it found some sections of the country too poor to afford a decent minimum of schooling. But Depression dramatized the "glaring inequalities" in U. S. educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile, the National Education Association had sponsored the Fletcher-Harrison Bill to appropriate first...
...equipped with Diesel engines to carry 800 passengers from Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavenger and Bergen to New York in seven days-twelve hours faster than any other Norwegian vessel. Grateful for Germany's slick construction job, the line gave a 10,000-mark tip to the shipyard's relief fund...
...handling of news from Rebel Spain was noticed by readers after the exposure of William Carney as Franco's press agent* in the last issue of Better Times. . . . Mr. [Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is quoted as saying of the Spanish War, I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel.' He is glad he is not compelled to choose between right and wrong. Normal persons, and certainly the masses of the people, will feel horror at such moral disintegration...