Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...check on inflation. ¶ President Roosevelt, with Harry Hopkins at his side, gave audience to Governors Lehman of New York, Benson of Minnesota, La Follette of Wisconsin, Quinn of Rhode Island, who urged him to maintain WPA rolls at their present size (2,200,000), which would make Relief costs about $1,750,000,000 for fiscal 1938, unbalance the budget by about...
...Governor Meier was thwarted by thrifty opponents who objected to his private telephone from capitol to store, his installation of the first private lavatory in the Governor's office. Furthermore, his pet financial hobby, the American National Bank of Portland, took the Bank Holiday of 1933 with such relief that its revival was a problem. Pacific Coast businessmen have long known that Julius Meier sank most of his personal fortune in the bank. Last week they learned from Meier & Frank's statement to SEC that the store itself had advanced no less than $800,000 to enable...
...liberal with a boringly Messianic style, Waldo Frank at 47 is at least as much a part of the U. S. scene as the Hyde Park orators are of London's. Unlike most liberals he suffered a broken crown for his beliefs (in 1932 when he led a relief committee into troublous Bell County, Ky.). Last September he was jailed in Terre Haute because he was in Communist Candidate Earl Browder's company...
...famous par collaborated on--a collaboration which resulted in great artistic successes but also in a good deal of friction to the parties involved. After seeing so many worthy but undeniably amateurish Gilbert and Sullivan performances by buxom church choirs and struggling women's club members, it is a relief to find a company which acts and sings with both finesse and spontaneity...
...time he served as a director of the Harvard Co-operative Society. In 1933 he was an executive chairman of the Cambridge Hospital, at one time he served as a director of the Harvard Co-operative Society. In 1933 he was an executive chairman of the Cambridge relief committee...