Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago, it breathed assurance that his financial policies would be sound political ground on which to stand for reelection. He said: "Our policy is succeeding. The figures prove it." The figures he produced indicated a net deficit for fiscal 1937 of only $518,000,000, exclusive of work-relief expenditures. They promised rising revenues, falling expenditures, dwindling deficits. While his budget message was being read, the Supreme Court handed down its AAA decision depriving the Government of $547,000,000 annually in processing taxes. Within three weeks Congress authorized a Bonus expenditure of $2,250,000,000 over...
...announced that when WPA uses up the sum of nearly $1,300,000,000 allotted to it out of the $4,000,000,000 work relief fund, instead of seeking new appropriations to carry WPA to June 30, he will transfer to it unspent funds allotted to other Departments-Army, Navy, Labor, Commerce...
...that Liberty League banquet as it would be to imagine George Washington waving a cheery good-by to the ragged and bleeding band at Valley Forge while he rode forth to dine in sumptuous luxury with smug and sanctimonious Tories in nearby Philadelphia. . . . You approved NRA, you approved farm relief, you urged Federal spending and public works, you urged Congress to cut red tape and confer power on the Executive, you urged autocratic power for the President. . . . The New Deal was the platform of the Happy Warrior. The policies of the Liberty League have become the platform of the Unhappy...
...death of King George V,* England's sad, frail Poet Laureate John Masefield explained that it was written while he had a bad chest cold, scrawled out with his left hand because California handshakers had disabled his right. The Hecksher Foundation for Children launched a drive for winter relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly newspaper of Doom, The Netherlands, Wilhelm...
...Senate and Texas' Patman in the House, inflationists and silverites loudly demanded new currency by the billion to pay the Government's bills. Schemes ranged from use of the $3,000,000,000 of "greenbacks" authorized in the so-called Thomas Amendment to the 1933 Emergency Farm Relief Bill, to the issuance of silver certificates against the mountain of silver acquired by the Treasury since 1934. And there was a fresh cry for spending the so-called "gold profit," now safely locked up in the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund. Meantime the 59? dollar sank for three...