Word: reliefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kansas. In his acceptance speech, Alf Landon declared: "We will not take our economies out of ... the unemployed. We will take them out of the hides of the political exploiters." A relief dispute in his own State last week gave the Republican Nominee a chance for further remarks in this direction. In his Fredonia. Kans. Herald, District WPAdministrator Ben Hudson lately asserted that administrative costs of Kansas' State Emergency Relief Committee were five times as much as those of its Federal WPAdministration...
...State Senate set out to investigate charges of WPA corruption in that State, was promptly halted by a Federal injunction on the grounds that no State legislative body had a right to investigate Federal activities. Republicans have lately demanded an investigation into the political aspects of Pennsylvania's relief by the U. S. Senate's Committee on Campaign Expenditures. Democrats have demanded that the Committee investigate large Pennsylvania employers charged with coercing their employes into the Republican line...
...stuff." A few hours before Nominee Landon was to deliver a campaign speech on relief, Harry Hopkins forehandedly revealed total costs of WPA and its administration to Sept. 1. The total...
Cost of administration: $72,000,000 or 4.1? out of each relief dollar. In sparsely settled Montana, the costliest State, administration took 8.6? of each dollar. In populous New York City it took only 2.7?, a national...
Unappeased by denials, counter-charges and figures, Nominee Landon cried at Cleveland that night: "Everybody knows there is too much politics in relief. This has become a national scandal. The evidence of this playing of politics has been supported by documented and sworn testimony. . . . This probably explains why the Administration has deliberately kept the country in the dark...