Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization of ten million men would hold forth great political possibilities, he continued. Formerly labor organizations seldom attempted to enter the arena of politics, but he believes that the increased activity of the government in labor's affairs, the N.R.A. and work relief, have increased the workman's desire to have an influence in the state, which will encourage a labor party...
Several hours later at New Orleans the moguls of Louisiana politics turned out to greet the great New Dealer. Still alive in every memory were Huey's thunderings at the New Deal, Huey's laws forbidding the spending of Relief money in Louisiana (since Mr. Hopkins would not let him have its spending) and the New Deal's retaliatory income tax evasion suits against the Longster tribe. By last week all that was changed. The President and his son were whisked away to Antoine's, famed old restaurant in the Vieux Carre, to eat Proprietor...
...Relief...
...Detroit, Mrs. Violet Crocker was dropped from relief rolls after she had bought a new spring wardrobe, packed up to go to the Coronation...
Such an enumeration, though considerably larger than the one ordered by the Lord for the Hebrew tribes, would not necessitate a huge expenditure. For the census, if undertaken by the constituted relief authorities, would not cost much more than the extra expense for stationery and cigars for the field force and light wines and beer for the secretariat...