Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Select relief administrators "on a basis of merit and fitness...
...Help and encourage relief workers to get private jobs by setting up "an efficient employment service," providing "the best technical and educational services," permitting workers to get back on relief at once if their private jobs prove temporary...
...Separate public works from relief. "I am opposed to the use of relief labor, at relief wages, for the construction of Federal public works...
...philanthropic and educational institutions. Beneficiaries included the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York (6,700 shares); Harvard University (3,300); Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital (1,700); Catholic Chari- ties of the Archdiocese of New York (700); Tuskegee Institute (200); New York Fire Department Relief Fund (200); Metropolitan Museum...
...question of relief corruption, long a skulker in the flickering outskirts of national politics, suddenly leaped last week into the blazing firelight of the 1936 Presidential campaign as an issue of prime importance. For months unbiased voters have scratched their puzzled heads while Republicans snarled that the Democrats were brazenly turning last year's $4,880,000,000 relief appropriation into a campaign fund and Democrats replied that the Republican charge was merely the familiar old bleat of the Outs against the fictitious misdeeds of the Ins. Until last week neither party had cared or was able to back...