Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admitting to the Press that he did not think his $4,000,000,000 Works Relief program had put more than 75,000 or 100,000 men to work by Aug. 1, President Roosevelt predicted that 90% to 95% of the unemployed would have been given relief jobs by Nov. 1, but asked not to be held too closely to his estimate. Meantime he allotted $95,000,000 for direct relief in August...
South Dakota swept into action. Early last week it shut every one of its relief stations, cutting 19,000 heads of families off relief, ordered the stations to stay shut until farmers had all the harvest help they wanted. Illinois stopped work relief in rural areas. Nebraska prepared to suspend relief allotments to 26 counties, halve them in 15 others. Missouri halted work projects employing 50,000 persons. Michigan cut 46,000 names off its relief rolls. One by one Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi fell into line...
Explained Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins...
...There has been a lot of loose talk about relief agencies closing down in reprisal against men on relief who refused to take jobs. That may make good front-page stuff, but there's no truth in it. . . . We closed the relief rolls in areas now harvesting because we felt that the situation there is approaching the normal. . . . We are emerging from the Depression. Agriculture is leading...
Chapin, an Art Institute favorite, has had much Chicago acclaim. His oils are forceful and suggestive, skimpy on detail, sometimes murky but always with one bright note of relief. His specialty is nudes. One on view last week showed a rear view of a woman changing a child's diaper...