Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign speeches have been as curious as the one which General Hugh Samuel Johnson delivered to an astonished Cleveland audience last week. The New Deal, declared the onetime No. 2 New Dealer, has made "not one inch of progress" toward solving the farm and unemployment problems. Its work relief program is a "fantastical flop." Its fiscal policies, if unchecked, will result in the "creation of floods of printing press money." Let us therefore, cried the General, re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace: The farm problem ... is a business problem . . . The man of business who had given the most of study, effort and sacrifice to it in this country was George Peek. . . . For twelve years he led that long fight [for farm relief] to eventual victory in the Roosevelt election. During that time, the ruminating Henry Wallace was little more sure of exactly where he stood than he is today. He muffed supporting the cause at all for many, many years. He began by teaming up with Peek, but ditched him-or got the President to ditch him -when...
Politics does not allow any New Dealer to love a possible Republican candidate for President. Nor does it allow WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, still struggling to fulfill the President's promise to end the Federal dole,* to love Governors who do not relieve him of relief. Last week a newshawk asked Mr. Hopkins how Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas was doing his part...
Kansas officials promptly pointed out that in fiscal 1933-34-35 the Federal Government had paid 69% of Kansas' relief bill although it paid more than 75% of the relief bill in 27 States, that although most of Kansas' contributions to relief expenses had been made through counties and municipalities, the State Government had contributed $215,000 in the last six months...
...connection with turning the dole back to the States, Mr. Hopkins undertook to have 3,500,000 unemployed on work relief by Nov. 1, a date since postponed to Dec. 1. Last week the original deadline was reached and the latest figures issued by WPA (as of Oct. 26) showed that only 1,543,000 had so far been put on work relief...