Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds in the drought-stricken counties of Texas. . . .' "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general Government ought to be ex tended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support...
While Franklin Roosevelt was on his South American trip last December his Relief Administration raised a storm. It announced that it was going to cut WPA expenditures to $152,000.000 a month, try to cut 150,000 reliefers off the rolls, make local governments pay a larger share of WPA costs. The U. S. Conference of Mayors went into a dither, reliefers staged sit-down strikes, and Harry Hopkins had quickly to back water, announcing, "No one who needs Relief will be dropped" (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week when the House received the Deficiency Bill appropriating Relief funds...
...than 51 votes. The discipline of the majority had little to do with this startling amenability of the House. It was due almost entirely to a paragraph hastily stuck into the Committee report at the last minute by request of President Roosevelt: if necessary the entire $790,000,000 Relief appropriation* would be spent for Flood Relief. No Representative wanted to vote against Flood Relief and, on the flood crests of the Ohio and the Mississippi, Franklin Roosevelt's Relief program rode to an easy victory. Only flaw in his success in cutting Relief costs was the rapidly growing...
...Relief. At week's end the Red Cross announced that it was already caring for 676,176 homeless people, was operating 360 concentration camps, 108 field hospitals, had 380 trained disaster relief workers and 1,215 nurses in the field. But such figures became obsolete almost as soon as issued. The Coast Guard established headquarters at Evansville, brought 225 of its boats on the scene for rescue work, sent for nearly 200 more from points as far distant as Boston. It had 15 airplanes in action. The U. S. Public Health Service was busy shipping anti-typhoid and smallpox...
Conclusive evidence that the U. S. was having a real flood came from Shanghai. Grateful Chinese decided to raise $60,000 to send to the U. S. for flood relief...