Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spending 'like this is not waste. It would spell future waste if we did not spend for such things now. . . . On my entire trip, though I asked the question dozens of times, I heard no complaint against the character of a single works relief project...
...Last spring I expressed the hope that employers would realize their deep responsibility to take men off the relief rolls and give them jobs in private enterprise. Subsequently I was told by many employers that they were not satisfied with the information available concerning the skill and experience of the workers on the relief rolls. On Aug. 25 I allocated a relatively small sum* to the Employment Service for the purpose of getting better and more recent information...
...Refused to answer a newshawk who asked: "Has there been any waste of Federal money in giving farm or drought relief to the farmers of Kansas...
Estimated expenditures for fiscal 1937 were set at $7,762,835, 300. Only$560,000,000 would be needed to finish off Bonus payments, and less would be spent on the Veterans' Administration, War Department, CCC, and recovery & relief. As for increases, $405,000,000 would be required for Social Security and expenses for AAA, debt retirement and interest on public debt would be up. In addition, the sum of all other expenditures would be $448,986,000 over 1936. chiefly because of public works and national defense. Finally, the President dangled a figure left out of his regular...
...stock anti-New Deal argument is that citizens on relief are supported in such comfort that they lose all desire to find jobs, improve their circumstances. Last week in Seattle, scrawny Ester Hilda Olson, 33, confessed that she had bashed in the head of her pretty, 16-year-old daughter Rose with an axe, cut her throat with a bread knife, buried her in a thicket near their shack. Explained Mother Olson: "I thought I was doing Rose a kindness by killing her. I was tired of living like an animal and raising her that way. I've been...