Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief of the armed and police forces of this State he will see that the workers are given their constitutional rights to organize. . . . This is a peace ful organization drive; no trouble is looked for. If the steel magnates throw the people into the streets, then the Pennsylvania Emergency Relief Board will find that these people are entitled to relief under the law." Straight from his steel-furnace job arrived Charles Scharbo to stumble in broken English through a Steel Workers' Declaration of Independence, paraphrasing the words of Thomas Jefferson at Philadelphia in 1776, and those of Franklin Roosevelt...
Swinging through the Northwest, WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins declared the drought in some areas to be "much worse" than in 1934. WPAdministrators in the five worst-hit States - Minnesota, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas - were ordered to begin Relief jobs for up to 50,000 destitute farmers at once...
...West's cropland into pasture, run the enormous political and sociological risk of moving families wholesale off their ruined acres. By week's end rain had revived the cot ton, tobacco and spirits of the South, but for most of the West there was no relief, no prospect of relief. With some 100,000,000 bushels of wheat burned away, crop statisticians last fortnight gave up all hope that the U. S. would this year get back to exporting a large wheat surplus for the first time since 1931. The Department of Agriculture last week reported the smallest...
Whipping Boy No. 2 proved more recalcitrant. Although the Federal Government has given many a lift to students and teachers through relief projects, it has so far refused direct subsidies to schools. Last week NEA voted to ask for an immediate $100,000,000 Federal annuity to U. S. schools with no strings attached, to be upped to a maximum of $300,000,000. Delegates were enthusiastic, if mystified, when Secretary Willie A. Lawson of the Arkansas Education Association declared: "We think that a government which . . . refused to consider permanent Federal aid is using...
Twelve-year-old King Peter II heard this verdict with visible relief. A serious, bookwormish boy, His Majesty has been plugging hard not only at his studies but in his carpentry shop. This started when the King told his mother the Queen that he needed more spending money and Her Majesty replied that by making small wooden articles and selling them to courtiers His Majesty could make as much pocket money as would be good...