Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even less solid stuff in which to sink a pen has been furnished by the New Deal's vast social and economic innovations. Republicans have jabbed hardest and oftenest at Spending & Taxation, with frequent digs at the Red Issue, Relief Corruption, Regimentation, Unemployment, Foreign Farm Imports. Democratic favorites have been Recovery and the Interests, nicely combined in pictures of plutocratic Old Deal ingrates howling calamity against a background of soaring business graphs and smoking factories...
...running expenses of the Government under the Hoover Administration were about 3⅔; billions a year. The New Deal reports ordinary expenditures, exclusive of relief and recovery, of less than 4 billions a year. In order to do so it has juggled its bookkeeping. One trick is to omit from the totals such items as pay ments to trust funds, certain District of Columbia expenditures, half the annual sinking fund payment for the Soldiers' Bonus. These items are furtively listed only in the appendix of the budget report. The apparent saving from this source has been...
...third method of reducing the apparent size of the Government's ordinary expenditures is by using funds that have been appropriated for relief and recovery. One example: in 1935 the Department of Commerce reported spending only $11,000,000 or 75% less than it did under Hoover. However, $21,600,000 realized from the assets of the Shipping Board were deducted from the Department's expenditures and $11,000,000 additional of the Department's expenses were paid out of relief and recovery funds. Another example: in 1935 the cost of national defense was figured...
Whether the new men take advantage of the opportunity is up to them and their prospective hosts. The cuisine of Adams House may be a welcome weekly relief to the roast beef au joos of the Union, and the Winthrop House waitresses may lend a zest to the Freshman's appetite that has been desperately absent since he came under the wings of Mother Murray and her Brood...
...King Stokowski found relief from routine last spring during the Philadelphia Orchestra's cross-country tour (TIME, March 27). He then stopped long enough in Hollywood to appear in Paramount's The Big Broadcast of 1937 (see >-67), along with Funnyman Jack Benny, the moronic radio team of Burns & Allen, Jazzman Kenny Goodman and his Swing Band. The Big Broadcast of 1937 had its Philadelphia premiere last week, but Conductor Stokowski's personal appearance was canceled at the request of the Musicians Union of which he is a member. -The world's three foremost orchestras...