Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pompous little Representative Hook housed himself, wife & daughters in Washington's swank, expensive Westchester Apartments last winter. Cried he, when the Hook family's extraordinary financial relations with the Government were publicized last week: "I'm not a bit ashamed! I'd rather have them that way, drawing honest relief from the Government, than become thieves. I have sup ported them all my life and I do not intend to do it again while other people are receiving relief...
Where, demanded a frantic telegram from Los Angeles relief officials to Washington relief officials one day last week, was that check for $2,000,000? It was supposed to have been sent a week ago. Things were getting desperate. One hundred and five thousand families were bawling for their doles...
Shrewd Franklin Roosevelt never let his Bonus marchers get the Washington spotlight. Quick as querulous, down-at-heel veterans began shuffling into Washington, he began shipping them off to special relief camps in the South. In eleven such camps last week?seven in Florida, four in South Carolina?some 2,500 derelicts were being housed, fed, paid $30 to $45 per month...
Last week, roused by the Times's carefully factual reports, Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins announced that the camps would be broken up by Nov. 1, all able-bodied veterans shunted to CCCamps or work relief jobs...
...hero last week (see above), forced into prominence the deep, half-hidden split between popular Nazi demagogs and Adolf Hitler's unpopular Big Business friends whose key man is Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and charged by the Realmleader with finding money for everything from poor relief to export subsidies and pocket battleships...