Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked how he could be sure people living on relief would voluntarily give it up in favor of bona fide employment when some solution for economic difficulties has been found, the Governor said. "It has been my experience with the more than a million people on relief in Pennsylvania, that all but two or three per cent will willingly give up relief if they are offered employment with reasonable prospects of permanency and any sort of decent wages...
...trucks rest, panting with relief. John looks his grimy hands together over his head in the fighter's victory salute. Hemenway has been leveled, and boy, oh boy, didn't she make a big noise, huhl
...Congress.* A onetime Pittsburgh newsdealer who says that he "would rather be a radical than a rubber stamp," curly-headed Democrat Dunn often rises, black glasses blazing, to harangue his collagues, who rarely listen to him, on such subjects as patent pools, monopoly, or the insufficiency of Relief expenditures. Before the holiday adjournment, Representative Dunn ascended the speaker's rostrum, caroled several stanzas of Oh Come, All Ye Faithful and played his harmonica to an all but empty house (see cut, p. 8). Later he inserted in the Congressional Record his New Year's greeting...
...hear an airplane anywhere over your home." Promptly from five States came 227 calls reporting the plane. Once the lost ship was said to be circling Manager Rickenbacker's house in Bronxville, N. Y. When Pilot Jones at last picked up a beacon, one & all cursed with relief, identified it from its flash as the one at New Britain, Conn., 82 miles north of Newark, directed Jones to the nearby East Hartford Airport...
...stockholders are smaller co-operatives (biggest: Farmers' Union Terminal of Minneapolis and Northwest Grain Association of Minneapolis). Their stockholders are grain elevator companies. And their stockholders, in turn, are some 300.000 farmers. Last week the 13 stockholders of Farmers National met in Chicago and, to the great relief of the farmers at the bottom of the pyramid, voted to dissolve its apex...