Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colored friend with whom he ungraciously refused to be photographed. To reporters he proudly announced that he had been fourth in line in 1933, that he would not sell his place for $50, that he was an unemployed truck driver who had been living on $60-a-month relief for three years and that, while waiting, he had been told that Mrs. Tony Albano had given birth to a son, their seventh. Said Mrs. Albano: "We're up to our necks in debt. I can't interfere with Tony but what I couldn't do with that...
...disintegration occurs when she claims the sinister box as her own in order to dissuade a Scotland Yarder from opening it. Every possible dramatic drop is squeezed from the scene in which Mrs. Bramson becomes hysterical with fright at being left alone in the house, hysterical with relief when her adored "Danny" comes back - to smother her with a cushion...
...record in Kansas is known to all. Prohibited by State laws from incurring any debt whatsoever, he has, therefore, "balanced the budget" there:--that is if one passes quickly over the matter of $400,000,000 worth of Federal relief funds poured into Kansas. As was admitted last week by William Allen White, Landon's chief apologist, the state ranks 48th out of 48 in regard to State help for State schools, a situation which may in part explain Kansas' miserable record in the matter of education...
...along at a funeral pace under their own power. The rest rode in automobiles. Bulking far larger than veterans in the parade and in Washington Hotel lobbies were the proud, full-bosomed Ladies of the G. A. R., Daughters of Union Veterans and members of its Women's Relief Corps. As prime beneficiaries of Civil War pensions, veterans' wives and daughters early formed enthusiastic auxiliaries which in time outnumbered and overshadowed the G. A. R. itself...
...Continuation of [drought] relief checks . . . seed loans and other necessary assistance...