Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government," Labor's bold reply was: "But we are striking." In this, Labor was mistaken. It was only trying to strike, and last week its effort petered out. Congress, embattled on greater issues, gave no sign of revising the 130-hour-per-month requirement of the new Relief Act, which so affronted aristocratic A. F. of L.; nor of rescinding the 18-months-&-off rule which hurt lowly Workers Alliance. Both organizations fumed and demonstrated sporadically last week, but WPA moved on oblivious. Grimly, Administrator "Pink" Harrington proceeded with his duty, imposed by the taxpayers' Congress...
...Calvinist Premier's Anti-Revolutionary Party is outnumbered by both Catholic and Socialist Parties. Dr Colijn has ruled by forming unstable coalitions with the Catholics. Month ago the Cabinet split because the young energetic Catholics wanted to pitch into the unemployment problem with expensive public works and generous relief. This old Dr Colijn could not permit, for the budget was already unbalanced by an extensive armament program. The Cabinet resigned...
Various medications have been used for relief of tic, such as alcohol injections, salicylates, trichlorethylene. Latest proposed treatment is Vitamin B 1 (TIME, May 8). But all these treatments are palliative, none gives permanent relief. Surgical cutting of nerves in the face was tried as early as 1748. Since then the surgical technique has been refined to include cutting of nerve roots and ganglions in the brain...
...Milwaukee last week Dr. Roland Metzler Klemme, St. Louis surgeon, described what he considers the best modern technique for relief of tic douloureux. It is a brain operation performed with the patient in a sitting position, under local anesthetic. Dr. Klemme makes a hole about the size of a quarter in the skull under the temple, lifts up the brain, exposes the root of the fifth cranial nerve, which serves the upper and lower jaws and the eyes. He delicately separates the fibres, severs only the sensory jaw fibres. In this way he has successfully relieved some 200 tic sufferers...
...billions earn money. Stagnant business and stagnant real estate have reduced the wage that a banker's dollars can earn. To keep them from becoming unemployed he has had to hire more & more of them to the Government. Today all banks have 30% of their total deposits on "relief"-hired out to the Government at a bare subsistence wage...