Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remedy for unemployment is not a permanent dole. Of course, relief must be continued as long as the need for it exists. The American remedy for unemployment is real work at good wages. It is clear that limitation of production and destruction of crops is not going to provide this kind of work. "The remedy for monopoly and special privilege is to do away with them. This must be one of our first objectives. One of the chief causes for our economic difficulties is the tendency of monopoly to fix prices and retain special privileges...
Having thrown dead cats at New Deal Relief for two years, Republicans eagerly picked up this fresh ammunition from the Journal, let it fly. Quick to the WPA's defense rushed the New Dealish New York World-Telegram which pointed out that the survey covered only one WPA worker...
...Washington tart-tongued WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, who loves to flay Republicans for dragging Politics into Relief, snapped: "Republicans will be in a tough spot if they really want to cut down expenditures by 'taking it out of the politicians' instead of the needy. But of course they won't try to do that. What they really want to do is to cut relief costs by taking it out of the hides of the needy...
Only thoroughly unperturbed person last week was Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, third to have charge of New York's relief machine in a year, whose character was recently gauged by newshawks who asked him where he came from. "From Arkansas," growled the Colonel, "where men are men and women are glad of it.'' Last week he responded in similar vein to a Journal newshawk: "I think this is swell publicity, and the more weaselers we can find, the better pleased I'll be. If there are any dead men on the payrolls, we want to know...
...Typical was the story of Widow Anna Eickleberry who had lived in Baca County 26 years. She voiced the perennial complaint of the Drought belt: shiftless farmers who have long since lost everything get Federal relief, but hard-working farmers can get no aid to keep them from destitution...