Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins joined the ranks of the petty when he charged Harvard university with "snobbery" because it declined student aid funds from the National Youth administration...
Wellesley and smith, woman's colleges, also institutions of the rich, declined relief funds as did Harvard. These were the only refusals in the country, there being more than 1,000 college and universities now spending $80,000 a month of N. Y. A. funds...
...hard-pressed students who might otherwise be forced to leave school, the allocation of relief funds has been a tremendous aid. when certain financially able institutions decline public money because they do not need it, however, it is unfair to accuse them of snobbery. In Harvard's case, it was an attempt to cooperate...
...most. Grandpappy ''fit the Yankees," who left three sabre slashes in his side. His daughters had been starved out of their birthplace only when nothing remained to eat except the dog. When his daughters and grandchildren finally revolt against wage cuts in the mill, Grandpappy supplies comic relief with his truculent ways and squirrel rifle. And when the best of his brood is finally pinked on the picket line. Grandpappy sings a hillbilly hymn of hate at the big funeral scene...
...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...