Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all the dilly-dallying and side-stepping of Constitutional issues now filling the current newspapers, it is a pleasant relief to find a little direct action by the members of the Law School in protest to President Roosevelt's judiciary evasion proposal. Their petition should serve as the touchstone for many more in all the Universities of the country. The Administration should be made aware that an ominous portion of his New Deal supporters are unconditionally opposed to any legal acrobatics dealing with the stability of the Supreme Court under the Constitution as it now exists...
...same time it was announced that the Council has given $75 additional to the Red Cross for Flood Relief. This constitutes an especial appropriation in addition to the $250 already given...
Most citizens are at home today and have been all week, at Mr. Dykstra's request that streets be clear for food and relief, and police be free to attend flooded areas. We are watching fire in our homes with care as has been requested because engines and pumpers are needed in the Basin where gas tanks have been undermined and gasoline released by the flood, also because the Water Works, built high above flood danger, are inundated today...
...Committee specified 10,000 projects-street, highway, irrigation, drainage, flood control, building & equipment, slum clearance, sewage, recreation, forestry, game protection, pest control, grade crossing elimination, navigation aid-some to be undertaken at once, some to be investigated and held in, reserve for the Next Depression. As a further Flood Relief measure the President proclaimed an emergency under the tariff laws permitting the importation duty free of relief supplies sent to the U. S. by charitable foreigners...
...Passed the First Deficiency Bill carrying appropriations for $950,000,000 of which $790,000,000 is for Relief to June 30 (not counting extra costs of Flood Relief) ; accepted minor House changes in conference; sent it to the White House...