Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early days of 1933 when frozen assets had put most U. S. banks in hot water, the general counsel of RFC frequently used to spend 18 hours a day on the legal problems of bank relief. Even in those busy days, though, Stanley Forman Reed was under less strain than he was last week. Since he became U. S. Solicitor General last March, he has fought one great case on behalf of the New Deal-the Schechter (NIRA) Case-and lost...
Last winter Virginia's Carter Glass, as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, found the Relief bill shot through with such befuddling phrases as "The President is authorized ... to make grants and/or loans and/or contracts." Flying into a fine rage, the peppery little Virginian marched out on the Senate floor, successfully defended his action in striking out "the idiotic expression 'and/or''; wherever it appeared in the bill. To his support Senator Glass summoned an impressive battery of opinion against "and/or...
...seemed highly probable that not even Herbert Hoover would know whether he intended to be a king or a kingmaker. This week, with his ace publicity man Ben Allen, he was in St. Louis to discourse to the John Marshall Republican Club on "The New Deal Further Explored, Including Relief." Listening to this third Hoover barrage, wiseacres credited the fertile wit of onetime Newshawk Allen with the following: "When I comb over these [Relief] accounts of the New Deal my sympathy arises for the humble decimal point. His is a pathetic and hectic life, wandering around among regimented ciphers trying...
...dismay of the French Press and public, to the vast relief of the Ministry of Justice, the nine-month duel of wits between Besson and "Bouboule" ended last week. Onetime Deputy Hippolyte Marcellin Philibert Besson, who took to doing card tricks in a Montmartre café, was arrested by plump Police Inspector...
...north in February, which most people think is a crazy time to go on an expedition, for several reasons. In the first place the atmospheric conditions are perfect for photography at that time. Besides this, the sun is low enough to give shadows and throw all our pictures into relief. Most important of all, with snow on the ground, it was possible to land with skis almost anywhere on lakes or glaciers...