Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college students, which they earned by working under the direction of their school authorities, spent largely on lunches, carfare, cigarets, clothing. Less than a fourth of the applications could be filled. For youth not in school, NYA's 48 state administrators had concocted an assortment of work relief projects, so designed as not to crowd the adult Works Progress Administration. Maximum monthly wage...
...beneficiaries. In Cleveland fortnight ago the American Youth Congress, annual sounding board for liberal-minded youngsters, demanded more money, more say-so in spending it, loudly cheered a speaker who cried: "NYA has the possibilities of a political football. . . . We seek not doles but economic rights! We seek relief administered democratically rather than by Presidential fiat...
...McDonald's face when he told newshawks how he had headed a delegation to Governor Landon last December to demand immediate enactment of State social security laws. "We put it up to him and he told me that the needy in our county were getting adequate relief...
...citizens off belligerent ships, voted against war and, in consequence, failed of reelection in 1920. Returning to the Senate in 1931, this onetime Populist turned hard-headed conservative proceeded to oppose such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill of 1935. To his constituents' demand that he vote for the Relief bill, he replied: "Much as I value votes, I am not in the market. I cannot consent to buy votes with the people's money...
Meanwhile the Democratic National Committee was bragging: "The entire country is applauding the swift, energetic and efficient manner in which the Roosevelt Administration is moving to the relief of drought victims in the Great Plains states. . . . Think what a calamity it would be if the Hoover doctrine were in force!" In five days WPA placed 16,500 farmers on relief projects, made ready to handle another 58,500. The Resettlement Administration declared a one-year moratorium on some 30,000 rural rehabilitation loans, prepared to pour out $18,000,000 for crop loans and feed. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace...