Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President and Mrs. Roosevelt were here and received a great welcome from the 225,000 school children who were let out of school and most of the 400,000 who are on relief here, all of whom lined the streets from the station to the Coliseum. The Coliseum was almost filled. The Epic Socialists passed out literature at the Coliseum and Upton Sinclair was in the limelight...
...roasted for three days last week in the Baltimore Sun. Into the hands of Pundit Kent, who mortally hates & fears the New Deal's spending policies, had fallen releases by Pressagent Amick describing three camps for girls established in Kansas with some of the 50,000,000 Work Relief dollars set aside by President Roosevelt "to do something for the nation's unemployed Youth" (TIME, July 8). Largely by quotation, Pundit Kent drew the following picture of National Youth Administration activities...
Arriving girls, all from families on relief, "gathered around a campfire while Mr. Hoiberg talked to them of the purpose of their camps. He stressed the fact that every person should study social and economic problems in these days; should attempt to discover the causes of our present plight, and then should help to combat the evils. An attempt will be made, Mr. Hoiberg said, to teach personal enrichment in leisure time...
...crew composed largely of veterans of the Sophomore team which last season downed Harvard 10-0. The Hull howitzers, Johnny and Joe Handrahan, will again be in the lineup, and although John will not start in today's game as will Brother Joe, he is slated for almost certain relief work. Beside Joe, will be perhaps the most colorful player on the Green squad, hard-bitten, bulldog-jawed, Carl "Mutt" Ray, last year's honorably mentioned candidate for All-American honors at center, a 192-pound powerhouse who holds down the pivot position on the offense and backs...
...twelve days in all. This is about the usual length. One is just beginning to fill one's soul with plum pudding and Father Noel when it is time to return to the dismal white wastes broken only by the peak of Memorial Hall. After the briefest snatch of relief, festivities are suddenly exchanged for facts, conviviality for colloquy. And because the recess is so short, the Yuletide days of a Harvard man are the acme of strenuous relaxation and busy indolence. The student comes back from his vacation completely worn out. It is at least possible that a longer...