Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million cars in the first ten months of 1935. Not one but two million shares a day were changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange and stocks after a seven-month climb were at their highest levels since the New Deal took office. Unemployment was still high, relief plans still in a muddle, but hunger marchers were nowhere. The Bonus was conceded victory in the next session of Congress. Only two disturbances loomed ahead: 1) the possibility of the Supreme Court's invalidating AAA's processing taxes; 2) the growing issue of Government spending to be faced...
...both the Queen and myself this- my Silver Jubilee Year-will ever remain one of our happiest memories. ... I rejoice that it has been possible for my Government ... to grant substantial relief to the small taxpayer. I am gratified to observe a further steady increase in employment among my people. . . . Important postal, telegraph and telephone concessions have been made during the year. . . . Measures have been enacted for further assistance to the agricultural industry ... the herring industry . . . tramp shipping...
Meanwhile last week His Majesty's Loyal Opposition-the Labor Party- demanded an opportunity before the snap election to present and have the House of Commons debate a motion censuring the Government for shortcomings in regard to unemployment relief. To avert this and gag the Opposition last week, Mr. Baldwin declared: "The question of unemployment is of profound importance [but] I am afraid the only thing to do in the circumstances is. in the words of the sporting papers, to change venue. A vote of censure will be moved in the country before the one tribunal by whose decision...
...Singer, a landscape in the manner of John Steuart Curry in which an incredibly red sun was setting behind an equally red farmhouse while a railway train let out a plume of smoke in the middle distance. It won the $500 Norman Wait Harris Medal. Gallery visitors greeted with relief that ably-painted veteran of a dozen U. S. art shows, Eugene Speicher's portrait of a mustached blacksmith, Red Moore (TIME, April...
Into Detroit's public welfare office marched dusky, buxom Mrs. Lilly Brooks, mother of Negro Pugilist Joe Louis and eight other offspring. Under the superintendent's nose she shoved a check for $269, equal to the relief money which had tided her and her brood over a hard period in 1927-28. Said she: "Joe wanted it paid back...