Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President will ask Congress for a 1938 Relief appropriation later in the session and hopes to keep it within one and one half billions provided industry will really try to hire away the Government's Relief workers. He would also ask (and did this week) for $790,000,000 extra to carry Relief through next June bringing the total of Relief and Recovery expenditures for fiscal 1937 up to $2,956,000,000 -the Relief bill to a new high...
Portentous was his budget in 1933 cutting Government expenses by $360,000,000, his budget in 1934 proposing to spend $10,000,000,000 for priming the pump, his budget in 1935 asking a lump sum of $4,000,000,000 for him to spend as he wished on Relief, his budget in 1936 when he proclaimed, "Our policy is succeeding...
These figures however do not show the real cost of running the Government on a post-Recovery basis because they include large Relief expenditures. Eliminating Relief costs, charging the Government with only the net cost of Social Security (see below) and allowing for no debt retirement, the expenses of the Government for fiscal 1938 come to about...
...Including $1,537,000,000-the amount to which the President hopes the Relief bill can be held...
...relief of their socialite constituents the city councilmen of Palm Beach last week thumbed down a proposed town trailer camp, decreed that the presence of more than one automobile trailer on a private lot constituted a public nuisance. In another rebuff to tin-can tourists the Palm Beach councilmen limited the parking of trailers on streets or highways to one hour, prohibited cooking in them during that period...