Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farmers said relief dependents were laughing at their job offers. Relief dependents said the farmers were offering starvation wages. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics said the average U. S. farm wage on July...
...Press: "The President stated that he is in entire sympathy with all people who make it clear that the American people and the Government believe in freedom of religious worship, not only in the United States but also in all other nations." ¶ Assembling Secretaries Morgenthau and Perkins, Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and Frank C. Walker, the President admonished them that it was none too early to begin figuring out how many billions would be needed for relief in 1937 and how many billions the Treasury could afford to offer...
...engineers. Saving State money is a hobby of his. Georgia had only $7,500,000 of debt when he took office in 1933 ; now it has less than $4,500,000. He has steadfastly refused to borrow money to match Federal appropriations for relief, has done his best to stop local governments from borrowing Federal money. He has not only insisted on pay-as-you-go finance but has lowered Georgia's property tax 20%, cut her automobile license fee to $3. On the issue of Georgia's Highway Department, Georgia's saving policy...
...into the eye's cavity. Because this salty liquid cannot escape, it jams the retina against the wall of the eye, slowly destroys the tasseled end of the optic nerve. Vision dims, blindness ensues. Drugs have proved of little help; surgery gives only temporary relief...
...Ottilie followed him to Manhattan, married him. George got a room in The Bronx by working as a janitor. A child was born, died of malnutrition. Then George lost his janitor's job. Because he was an alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving. They rigged up a tent, pitched it each night in Palisades Interstate Park, struck it at dawn to avoid arrest for vagrancy. George picked up odd jobs. When the tent began to fall...