Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress for quick action to extend the expiring life of certain authorizations and powers (for example, RFC lending), to modify the Neutrality Act in order to provide an embargo against arms shipments to Spain, to pass a deficiency bill (to provide for Relief). He ticked off recommendations and reports on many subjects: Reorganization. "I find that this task of Executive management has reached the point where our administrative machinery needs comprehensive overhauling." Housing. "Many millions of Americans still live in habitations which not only fail to provide the physical benefits of modern civilization...
...Relief expenditures for fiscal 1938 can be held down to about one and a half billions, that year would see the Government's revenues and expenses brought into balance for the first time since fiscal...
...administrator. Speaking in a tight-voiced monotone, Dr. Vonderlehr last week advised the 6.000.000 victims of syphilis, the 12,000,000 victims of gonorrhea and the unestimated victims of soft chancre (caused by Streptobacillus ulceris mollis) in the U. S.* that they may reasonably expect the following means of relief during 1937: "1) The appointment of a full-time venereal disease control officer in every State department of health...
...last week's announcement, first reason advanced for the amendment was that "The Committee felt that a multiplicity of clubs tended toward mechanization. . . . It was1 felt that . . . players should not buy their shots in the professional's shop. . . ." Corollary reasons were: 1) relief to caddies; 2) reduction of delays in play; 3) equalizing conditions between players who can afford an unlimited supply of clubs and those who cannot...
...importance to hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens, white and black, for Fair Ground mutuel totals are currently used in the best numbers games. It was particularly important last week because the play was heavy in the hope of a Christmas Eve killing. Last year a Negro on Relief in New York's black Harlem dropped dead from shock when...