Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With their limited resources the New Theatre Players do an excellent job. The casting is perfect. The play suffers, like most avowedly propagandist plays, from too much earnestness on the part of the playwrights (Paul Peters and George Sklar). It lacks any touch of relief from exciting, sometimes harrowing situations. The structural fault in its conception is obviously this tie scene after another. The acting of both the negroes and whites is good enough to being off the needed effects through the first two acts, but the third act is somewhat of a strain of one's sense of credibility...
...concessions as possible, without compromising the full benefits of a Harvard education, to those students who have to work their financial way through. A minor and relatively unimportant concession such as this, from the point of view of the officers of the University, and yet one which offers greatest relief to the individuals concerned, is the least that can be done...
Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham dropped in for a talk on the Ethiopian crisis before returning to his London post. Secretary Roper arrived to discuss his Commerce Department's budget. Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins appeared to row over relief policy (see col. 2). But at the close of Squire Roosevelt's second vacation week at Hyde Park House, his visitors had left only one resignation behind. That came from New York City's Works Progress Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. "It ain't gonna be any more pro bono publico," declared the grinning General...
Next day President Roosevelt called correspondents into the library, announced his decision. The problem, said he, was simply one of dollars, men and time. PWA's heavy program could not get well started until next spring. So far the relief program had put only 800,000 persons to work, 500,000 of them in the CCC. Therefore from December to March most of Work Relief's loose change was going to Mr. Hopkins for his quick, small, cheap jobs?adding up to something like Mr. Hopkins' old "leaf-raking" CWA program. By March, declared the President, that program could...
After a four-day investigation, during which he queried Weather Bureau officials, Relief officials, camp officials and residents of the storm-wrecked Florida Keys, State Attorney George Ambrose Worley last week came to the conclusion that no one was responsible for the failure to evacuate veterans on relief before last fortnight's hurricane killed 458 (TIME, Sept. 16). "There will be no indictments or recommendations of indictments," said he, bundling up his report and speeding it off by automobile to Governor Dave Sholtz at Jacksonville...