Word: reliefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus last week the status and spirit of the New Deal relief colony in Alaska's Matanuska Valley was reported by colonists' telegrams to President Roosevelt, Relief Administrator Hopkins, Senators Couzens, La Follette and Schall, Governor...
...heady, fine-sounding stuff on paper. Picked from relief rolls in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, the prospective colonists knew their Promised Land was a wilderness, but the Government was going to turn the wilderness overnight into an Eden with running water, radios, a cinema. It was going to set each family up on fine 40-acre farms with every necessity, many a luxury, 30 years...
With his shock of grey hair shaved at the back of the neck. Bandit Spada heard mass kneeling between two guards. Handcuffed, he was then led to the scaffold. It was all over quickly, much to the relief of Executioner Deibler whose machine has been sticking lately (TIME, April 23, 1934). Son-in-law Perrier supervised putting things away, patient in the knowledge that if M. Deibler ever keeps his long-time promise to retire and raise chickens, he will inherit the guillotine business of all France...
...Nazidom's hundreds of lung-straining Party orators July is the only month of throat ease during the year. Last week Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels provoked the usual nationwide relief by issuing his usual pre-July announcement: "In never-tiring fulfillment of their duty. National Socialist speakers have worked in the cause of enlightenment in city and country at thousands of meetings night after night. The second half of the year 1935, especially the Fall and Winter, will bring new demands upon their strength. To give them the necessary relaxation and time for recreation...
When James J-Braddock paid off his $367.24 indebtedness for relief, the Hudson County, N. J., bureau reported the incident to superiors, adding: "Incidentally, Mr. Braddock recently became the champion heavyweight of the world...