Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first battle of the River Raisin was fought Jan. 22, 1813, not more than three blocks from where tear gas routed the CIO picket line June 10, 1937. It was an engagement between 800 Kentucky militiamen sent by General William Henry Harrison for the relief of General Hull at Detroit and about 1,500 British and Indians. The Americans arrived at the River Raisin Jan. 18 and dispersed a small British force. Three days later the British returned, found the Americans asleep, with no sentries posted, and fell upon them, killing some 150 and taking the rest prisoners. "Remember...
...Passed the Administration's $1,500,000,000 Relief Bill, rejecting (48-to-30) an amendment by Senator Lodge to use $20,000,000 of the funds for a national census of unemployed. Returned the bill to the House...
...fight was over the Administration's $1,500,000,000 Relief bill for fiscal 1938. In the House vigorous attempts were made to attach earmarking amendments to provide pork for the constituencies of various Congressmen (TIME, June 7 et seg.), but in the Senate the revolt against the bill was of an entirely different character. The fight in the Senate was started when dapper Senator James F. Byrnes, long rated a close political friend of Franklin Roosevelt, proposed an amendment sponsored by the Appropriations Committee requiring that no Work Relief projects should be undertaken unless the local communities concerned...
...state of mind in legislating that we want to encourage or even countenance indifference, lack of diligence, total lack of thrift and energy? Have we come to the point where we wish to say, "The less you do or attempt to do, the more we will do?" When the Relief bill went to Congress a group of stanch Democratic Senators, of whom Senator Robinson was one, went to the White House and said flatly that Relief spending had to be reduced. They said it so flatly that Franklin Roosevelt listened to them and gave them reassurance. Inasmuch as the President...
...small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating for relief. Then came the power reverse gear which did the same job by air or steam-pressure released by nicking a small lever. Insisting on its installation, the Brotherhoods four years ago got the Interstate Commerce Commission to order it. Because each installation costs $500, the railroads fought the case...