Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which only one is successful, the audience completely gives up the ghost and settles back to enjoy the really outstanding performance of Alan Mowbray, who has found his forte in the field of comedy. As a clever magician suffering from the horrible disease of "polydigitalis" he offers a welcome relief from the plot...
Speaking to a rally sponsored by the Harvard Landon-Knox Club, Kurtz claimed a Republican majority of 350,000 in Pennsylvania and declared that "America is doomed unless Landon is elected." Cox declared that the issues were many, and included "Farleyism, politics in relief, deceitful bookkeeping, economy, and security." He agreed that business had improved but said recovery "started only when the N. R. A. and the A. A. A. were thrown out by the Supreme Court...
Despite the improved conditions, he cited the fact that 20 millions of Americans were still on relief--a figure, he declared, which was as high as at any time during the depression. "How long can we continue spending two dollars for every dollar we take in?" he asked. "It is the beginning of the decay of democratic society...
Senator Byrnes defended the increase in the national debt and declared that every promise in the 1932 Democratic platform had been kept except the promise to balance the budget and reduce expenditures. He also attacked the G.O.P. relief plan...
...means of humorous relief during the compilation of this book invariably came when certain brain-twitching cases among the Commuters were called up as a last resort in checking...