Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House guest of the week was Relief Administrator Hopkins, still working on the Rooseveltian promise to end the dole, give 3,500,000 men employment...
...Robinson did not mention was that 1) less than 600 bills were actually passed; 2) approximately 20 days of the eight months were spent by the House in calling the roll; 3) the first three months were principally frittered away in a prolonged wrangle over the $4,880,000.000 relief appropriation; 4) the second three months were distinguished by passage of the Greenback Bonus Bill which was vetoed; 5) the seventh month was marked by the passage of the dubious National Labor Relations Act. Most of Senator Robinson's pride sprang from what happened in Congress during the last...
After 30 years of marriage Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo left his second wife in 1933. Last summer, after suing her husband for separate maintenance, Mrs. Bilbo obtained a relief job. Last week she made news by entering her first political campaign...
...persuaded him at least to take his charming fictional college boys along. Wearily Author Flandrau capitulated, found the young Harvard men accompanying him to England and France, thought of them as traveling in his heart, his head and his steamer trunk, got rid of them at last with such relief that he did not reread his own account of their adventures until 34 years later...
...closed doors Negro Bishop Robert E. Jones (Northern Methodist) of New Orleans made a valiant attempt to make an issue of Equal Rights. Negro President Willis J. King of Gammon Theological Seminary, who was reported to have been promised a bishopric, said nothing. Finally, in public, everyone sighed with relief when Bishop Jones arose, said that the segregation plan was acceptable to his people...