Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed and sent to Conference the $250,000,000 Deficiency Relief Bill...
Overseer of the Poor in Hoboken for 42 of his 74 years was bluff, beefy Harry L. Barck. He thought during Depression that the State let the "Relief trust" turn public charity into a racket. Two years ago, when New Jersey turned administration of relief over to its municipalities, he proceeded to act on this belief by cutting Hoboken's Relief rolls from 7,000 clients to 360. Tales were borne to the State capital at Trenton about Mr. Barck bawling out applicants, refusing to buy milk for families with small children. Poormaster Barck's friends retorted that...
...outside his door. The officer had just been asked to arrest Mrs. Lena Fusco for spitting in Mr. Barck's face when into the office shuffled small Joseph Scutellaro, 36, an unemployed carpenter. Carpenter Scutellaro had received $5.70 for his wife and two babies since he applied for Relief in December...
Sentiment and strong, traditional rivalry will be cast in relief tonight as Crimson and Blue sextets pitch battle on the Garden ice in what may be the most exciting battle of the season...
...premiums for twenty years may at the end of that time receive only four dollars a month. Such a small return is merely a caricature of the security which a pension system is supposed to provide. It returns to the recipient just enough money to supply carfare to the relief bureau...