Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what economies he hoped to make he furnished them first with a list of economies that were not to be. No savings could be made in interest on the public debt, none by reducing Federal salaries. None could be made by furloughing employes nor by discharges. None in Relief. Few or none in the regular departments of the Government. He expected that half of fiscal 1938's approximate $8,000,000,000 would be spent. On the other half he hoped that 10% or $400,000,000 would be saved. How? By delaying in hiring people to replace those...
...working. Construction, the slowest of the great industries to recover, is operating on less than 50% of normal volume. If it were on a normal volume basis, it could employ 2,500,000 more men than it is now using. This, singularly, is the number now on "relief...
...brisk little Senator, dapper in a different suit each day, was too smart to indulge in any personal histrionics. He simply directed his actors, the witnesses. And like the good showman he is, Bob La Follette provided plenty of comic relief for what was otherwise, grim, gruesome business. The comedy was supplied by the Chicago police force...
...Senate meanwhile hammered the squint-eyed Frenchman who as Finance Minister under Premier Blum officially was responsible for bogging down the State's finances in such a morass that the Blum Cabinet chose with relief to resign, namely Vincent Auriol. Today he is Minister of Justice in the new Chautemps Cabinet. Last week the Senate Finance Committee's rapporteur, Abel Gardey, flayed him in a long speech which the Senate liked so well it ordered his words posted up on public billboards all over France. Senator Gardey charged that Vincent Auriol when he was Finance Minister had been...
Nobody knows how many hoboes there are in the U. S. Nobody knows how many of them are women. Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins says there are 6,800. "BoxCar Bertha," whose ghost-written autobiography appeared last week, doubles the estimate. Whether or not Bertha is always strictly accurate in her figures or her facts, her narrative is cauliflower-ear-marked by the brutal truth, wears no wig. Beside Sister of the Road, such recent revelations as Mark Benney's Angels in Undress and John Worby's The Other Half, pale into comparative respectability. Bertha's birthright...