Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929. Ralph Owen Brewster made his political name & fame by a dogged fight against the Insull power interests in that state. Elected to the house last autumn as an avowed enemy of Power, he helped wangle a $36,000,000 works relief grant from the Democratic Administration to harness the tides below Passamaquoddy Bay in his district with a great government power dam. Yet in the House teller vote on the Public Utility Bill's so-called "death sentence" (TIME, July 8), Representative Brewster sided with Power, against the President. That startling...
...terrible weeks Senator Robinson strove doggedly to save the President's $4,880,000,000 relief bill from the attacks of conservatives who wanted to reduce the appropriation, from radicals who wanted to force the payment of union wages on relief projects. The bill was nearly cut to ribbons under his feet, when Vice President Garner went to his aid, suggested that it would be better to send the mangled measure back to committee for repairs and later slide it through in a cooler hour-a trick which worked...
Early last week Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins was allotted $142,245,875 to hire 169,000 relief workers in New York City, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana and the District of Columbia. Same day, the House clipped President Roosevelt's so-called "death sentence" out of the Utilities Bill...
...newshawks who trooped into the White House two days later for the President's regular mid-week press conference, the progress of work relief was of small interest. What they and the nation wanted to know was what President Roosevelt was going to do about his House rebuff. That was precisely what President Roosevelt did not wish to discuss. Hence, like any Senator, he launched a one-man filibuster...
...Chancellor said that he has given not "risky relief" but "stimulating relief" to Britain. "Railway traffic, bank clearings and retail trade all show a steady rise," continued Mr. Chamberlain. "The index of production in the building industry?a good barometer?has risen to the record figure of 181, taking 1930 as 100. Imports of raw materials have increased. These are all hopeful pointers." By implication Chancellor Chamberlain attributed them to his Treasury policies which he aptly summed up as "always keeping in the forefront the necessity of maintaining confidence...