Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aberdeen, S. Dak. a cheerful, prosperous-looking crowd of 15,000 gave President Roosevelt the warmest reception of his trip. There, as in other towns along his way, he saw good clothes, smiling faces, rows of new automobiles, was assured that, though crops had failed, Fed- eral relief money spent on neighborhood building and conservation projects had kept things humming. "I understand," cried he, "some people are not in favor of planning for the future. I understand some people object to spending now in order to save for the future. But it is real economy if you spend...
Gene Talmadge has hated the New Deal ever since it offended his official and masculine pride by adjudging him and his staff incompetent to administer Georgia's relief, putting a female Federal agent in control. But the Governor also fancies himself a political philosopher and fiercely hates the New Deal's expensive paternalism. Proclaiming himself a Jeffersonian Democrat, he believes in a free hand for business, the least and cheapest government possible...
Said Mrs. Eickleberry, blinking up into the face of Mr. Cooke: "Everything we have is mortgaged. Every day I see 'rehabis' [recipients of rehabilitation relief] going by to work, but my two sons can't get relief jobs. I don't see why farmers who have been here for years can't get relief before they lose everything...
...bushel in Chicago, a 16-year high, and was actually above the price of wheat (see p. 42). Over 1,000 of the 3,000 counties in the U. S. were now listed as drought emergency areas, including every county in the Dakotas, Kansas and Oklahoma. The Relief Administration figured it would have to take care of 120,000 to 150,000 farm families. The Resettlement Administration estimated it would have to aid 400,000 other farm families...
Alphabet Aid. To help farmers in this crisis nearly the whole alphabet of the New Deal will go into the field. WPA will pay an average of $40 to over 100,000 relief workers to build roads, construct dams to save water and through the Bureau of Biological Survey to restore refuges for wild fowl. With $20 a month grants and loans to buy forage, RA will help others to rehabilitate themselves. AAA will help them with $10,000.000 worth of seed loans, with some $30,000.000 to buy livestock. And NYA will provide financial aid so that their children...