Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With Homer Martin and other United Automobile WTorkers the President discussed unemployment and relief in the Detroit area. Later in the week Mr. Martin massed 100,000 workers in Detroit's Cadillac Square for a Relief demonstration...
...detrained in Manhattan last week with a shivering Chihuahua toy dog named Sophie, the 31st U. S. President created no stir at all leaving the same train. Citizen Herbert Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif, was bound for Belgium, for his first visit since he served as its unsalaried Wartime Relief Administrator. Meantime, Publisher Charles F. Scott returned from a visit to Mr. Hoover in Palo Alto to break in his Iola (Kans.) Register an authentic scoop about the only living ex-President. Publisher Scott's news was that Herbert Hoover had kept not one cent of the salary...
...southwestern Wisconsin's Iowa County, of whose 20,000 population 871 are on Relief, the county welfare committee last week announced that it will act on no more Relief applications from newlyweds, would order all clients driving cars to turn in their license plates. Said Chairman Carl Rowe: "We had to discourage some of the more ambitious Relief seekers...
...prefer private to public charities. Relief has been proved to be more efficiently administered through local than federal or state bureaus. Wages should be so low that workers will be glad to return to private employment. We favor depriving all persons on relief of the right to vote, until they again become self-supporting...
That all conservative undergraduate opinion is not necessarily unoriginal or dull seems amply proven by the recently published platform of the "Young Conservatives." Any organization which states: "We favor depriving all persons on relief of the right to vote until they again become self-supporting" is cooking food for thought and discussion. We may not agree with all their fifteen suggestions for better government; but if they can begin a virulent argument with such an organization as the Student Union, may the battle rage with long and sensible fury...