Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Railroad last month added W. E. S. Miller of Woodbury, N. J., George Carr of Lindenwold, N. J., 22 other furloughed clerks. Being veteran Pennsy employes and substantial citizens of their communities, Messrs. Miller & Carr decided to do something more than eat up savings, look for Relief, or moan to the neighbors. What they did was to form a "Legion of the Damned...
...farmers-we've got to get a-farmin'. We ain't goin' back on no Goddamned relief no more. . . ." Act II-"If you think anyone can make a livin' in this dump you're crazy...
Last week the Bureau published The Statistical Pattern of Instalment Debt, a 23-page pamphlet, which told the results of the study of non-relief families in 1935-36. Prime facts...
...recovery caused 70% of instalment-buying families to increase their instalment indebtedness. The net increase amounted to $407,000,000 or $580,000,000 when single persons and relief families were included...
...recently sentenced to two years imprisonment. He claimed that the painting had been badly retouched and that he had intended to improve its condition . . . The Percy Haughton monument at Soldiers Field was done by Dr. Mackenzie, a truly great sculptor. Ironic as it may seem, the figures done in relief on the monument are actual representations of members of the last Penn football team to play Harvard. Players of the 1928 squad posed for the sculptor...