Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Press found Nominee Landon's maiden campaign speech a closely reasoned, inspiring statement of great truths. The Democratic Press found it vague, uninspired and-with its promises of economy plus adequate relief, of peace for business plus war on monopolies, of increased farm exports plus decreased farm imports-as inconsistent as the Republican platform. Impartial observers were impressed by the temperate tone in which Alf Landon attacked New Deal performance, the forthright manner in which he espoused much of the New Deal program.- Citizens who expected a summons to a holy crusade against Franklin Roosevelt...
...social security, he considers the New Deal's system unjust and impracticable, dislikes its "spendthrift generosity," its currency policies. But the only things which really make him boil are: 1) "must" bills, jammed through without adequate debate by Congress or the nation; 2) waste and politics in relief; 3) the spoils system as practiced by James A. Farley...
...years ago, Charlie Taft inquired: "What is there about an Ohio lawyer to interest the East?" Last week not even modest Mr. Taft could deny that his views were of interest to the whole nation. A frequent Topeka visitor since December, he largely drafted the Landon planks on relief, social security and civil service reform, went to the Cleveland Convention as Alf Landon's personal representative to see that they got into the platform. Few days later he turned up in Topeka as one of the Landon "researchers...
...Nominee Landon's acceptance speech last week with the tone of You And I-And Roosevelt did not underrate the position of Charlie Taft in the Topeka setup. Officially this Ohio middle-of-the-roader is supposed to advise the nominee and his campaign strategists only on relief and social security. But if Alf Landon moves into Charlie Taft's boyhood home in Washington next January, he will be indebted to that young counsellor of moderation for a lot more than an ordinary researcher's facts & figures...
...after Governor Landon pledged himself in his acceptance speech to purge relief of politics (see p. 9), acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams dismissed seven Oklahoma WPA officials for exerting political pressure on relief workers in the recent Democratic primary, in which anti-New Dealer Senator Thomas P. Gore met defeat (TIME, July 20). Administrator Williams then trumpeted: "I defy anyone to show me where anyone on relief has been politically coerced. . . . We have received instructions from the President to keep this thing out of politics and we're going...