Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson, meanwhile, was working steadily away at relief pitcher Dick Bell and finally splurged for four runs in the eighth on singles by Maguire, Adzigian, Prouty, Owen, and Colwell...
...past two years angry unemployed have besieged the Legislatures of Texas and Illinois with demands for more & better relief. Two months ago members of the Workers' Alliance, No. 1 jobless union, marched into the Wisconsin Capitol, spent ten days in the Assembly chamber, were finally put out by police. All last week members of the Workers' Alliance squatted in the New Jersey State House at Trenton while the Legislature was in brief recess. Reason: New Jersey had run out of State relief funds, and 270,000 jobless had been turned back to local authorities to be cared...
Year ago, after Republican Governor Harold G. Hoffman took office, a sales tax was imposed to provide relief revenues. Within a few months it grew so unpopular that it was repealed. The New Jersey Legislature which met last January could not agree on another form of relief taxation. So last week, after every cent of State money not legally tied up for other uses had been spent, the Legislature decided to knock off for six days...
...encamped in the Assembly chamber. Bread and meat were brought in, and sandwiches were made on the clerk's desk. A coffee urn was set up under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. John Spain Jr., Workers' Alliance organizer, took the chair as "Speaker." "Assemblymen" made speeches demanding relief...
...answer to demands that he borrow money for relief or use State funds appropriated for other purposes. Governor Hoffman issued a statement pointing out that he could do so only in case of "invasion or insurrection." Promptly the mock Assembly adopted a resolution...