Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relief Bill. Comment: It would work a hardship on 8,000,000 people...
...Nobody planned to starve the jobless actors, writers, painters removed from WPA. They are as eligible for home relief as jobless admen, wheelwrights, plasterers...
...Pared a separate two-year Relief appropriation from $73,000,000 to $35,500,000, loading it with amendments to make sure that Relief does not interfere with the supply of low-wage farm hands...
President of the Danzig Senate is Arthur Greiser, a native of Poznan, who went to Danzig in 1920 because American relief food was plentiful there. A failure at everything else, he went into politics, progressively switching from the Socialists, to the Stahlelm (reactionary veterans' party), to the Nazis. Oratory and a talent for street-fighting made him Deputy-gauleiter of Danzig and President of the Senate in 1934, a year after the Nazis had gained control of the Danzig Government. Nazi Greiser prefers autonomy for Danzig to actual annexation by Germany, but when the time comes...
...their State. Taxes on the pari-mutuel take at four proposed tracks (probable sites: Camden, Atlantic City, Asbury Park and a spot near the Jersey end of the George Washington Bridge, just across the river from New York City) will add $5,000,000 a year for State Relief, avert a threatened State income tax (which Jerseyites have so far escaped) and put 6,000 men to work. At least that is what the politicians promised the voters...