Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responsive to popular sentiment, it revised taxes against the President's will. Vote-hungry, it lavished money on farmers. Economy-minded (if not economy-willed), it pared the Relief outlay, tightened the rules, canceled projects it considered frittering. Stubborn, self-assertive, it would have taken away the President's monetary powers had he not been able to barter with enough venal Silver Senators. Weary of experiment, it harnessed TVA. But all these anti-Roosevelt actions were a gentle prelude to what came last week...
...Illinois, servants equally of organized labor and of the New Deal, dutifully drafted amendments to Colonel Harrington's law as dictated by Labor. Cutest question of the week was whether the President would throw his weight for or against what the New York Times termed "the aristocrats of Relief...
Significance. Fundamental issue raised by the unionists' war on WPA was: what is work-relief? Is it work undertaken by Government to take up slack when private work is lagging? Or is it jobs thought up, invented and financed to occupy idle men, keep alive their working instinct, health and habits, sustain their purchasing power? Into neither of these basic conceptions fits the unions' assumption that work-relief must ensure the pay-scales for which unions have organized and fought, and by which, in fat times, they have profited...
...Government is already, through relief rolls and WPA projects, providing support for a very substantial number of lawyers. At the same time it sees a large number of citizens who help pay taxes, deprived of legal services because they can ot pay the provisional scale of prices...
Hopeful that he had the author of all 13 atrocities, Cleveland's Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell breathed a long sigh of relief. Politically, his skin was saved. Professionally, he had triumphed over Sleuth Eliot Ness, famed G-Man who "got" Al Capone and is now Cleveland's Director of Public Safety...