Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ickes was anything but happy. The Senate bill gave him nothing but a new title, failed to give him administration of the Soil Conservation Service (new AAA), the Forest Service, the CCC. Worse still. Secretary Ickes' authority was on the point of being drastically deflated by the new relief bill coming before the Senate this week...
Since the New Deal came in, there have been three stages of relief. In the first stage (1933-34), Harold Ickes was the big fish with $3,300,000,000 to spend and lend for public works, and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was a small fry with only $500,000,000 to spend. Because Mr. Ickes' public works were so slow starting, Mr. Hopkins had to set up Civil Works Administration to get the jobless through that first New Deal winter. In the second stage (1934-35) Secretary Ickes got an extra $500,000,000 to carry...
...Relief Bill of 1936 will produce the fourth stage which is theoretically the same as the third stage but smaller in size. Yet last week when Senators began looking into the matter, it appeared that Administrator Hopkins was going to be the only fish left in the relief pond. Of the $1,425,000,000 for relief in the next fiscal year all was allotted to him. Some $85,000,000 was set aside for rural rehabilitation, but the bill specified that Mr. Hopkins, not Dr. Tugwell, was to spend it. For Secretary Ickes and his Public Works there...
Echoing President Roosevelt's warning that more relief money might be needed next January unless Business makes more jobs. Administrator Hopkins discouraged Committee suggestions of a permanent relief program, declared: "I am convinced that [relief] has little to do with reviving employment as such : that it is a palliative; that it is a necessary thing. ... I think the emphasis and thinking of Congress should be far more on the whole problem of unemployment itself than on the problem of relief...
This week, having registered perfunctory protest against politics and graft but not caring to go on record against relief in an election year. Republican Representatives joined Democrats in passing the Deficiency Bill by a whacking...