Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Deficiency, providing $1,425,000,000 for President Roosevelt to spend on Relief in almost any way he pleases except to continue the Florida Ship Canal...
...arose at the trial as to what law or regulation requiring competitive bidding Defendant Giles was accused of breaking. Said Judge Vaught critically: "I have investigated here now for nearly a week to find out just exactly what is contained in the first executive order made under the Emergency [Relief] Act. . . . I also tried to find orders made by the persons to whom the original power was delegated by the President. I couldn't find them. I think I have a pretty good library. It is a strange thing if there...
...court's intention to reflect upon the President of the United States or the administrator of this Relief fund, either national or State. What the court intended to say was that in the distribution of billions of dollars, certain definite regulations should be provided which would govern those who dispense that...
More than ordinarily grateful for this money was New Jersey. For the first time in 50 years the State faced a deficit, $13,000,000. Persistently loud has been the demand for additional taxes for Relief (TIME, May 4). Equally loud has been the Legislature's reluctance to legislate a tax bill. That the Dorrance largess, one-fourth of which was interest on the original amount due, was a beautifully-timed blessing seemed apparent to everyone but State Senator Charles E. Loizeaux. Snapped he: "This is just staving off the evil day. . . . Next year there...
...Figure it out for yourself," sighed Banker Roosevelt. "That's the whole basis of this relief business. You take the money away from New York and give it to some backwoods state." RFChairman Jones thereupon challenged anyone to think up a better reorganization scheme. Banker Roosevelt promptly took him up, proposing to 1) split the road into an owning and an operating company connected by a one-year lease; 2) borrow $5,000,000 from RFC; 3) borrow $1,000,000 from Boston's rich, crotchety Frederick Henry Prince. In return for its money RFC would get first...