Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the public palaver over his latest tax proposal (see p. 13) President Roosevelt worked long & hard last week over a tougher, more immediate problem -Relief. He had made it his peculiar personal problem when he asked and got from Congress $4,000,000,000 and the right to spend it as he saw fit. With this fat fund firmly in hand, his promise to the country was to end the dole and give 3,500,000 jobless real jobs. And by last week he was up against a hard mathematical fact: $4,000,000,000 divided among...
...works Mr. Ickes started last year and the year before. When some $1,800,000,000 of his $4,000,000,000 had been allotted, the President had good reason to worry about the average job-cost of his projects. Early last week, when Harry Hopkins had his state relief administrators assembled in Washington, the President emphasized that costs must be held to about $1,143 a family. Few days later, when Undersecretary of Agriculture Tugwell convened his Regional Resettlement Directors, the President made them a little speech, reminding them forcefully of that figure, which was playing so large...
...months ago, when he was filibustering against the anti-lynching bill, Alabama's Senator Bankhead effectively tied up Senate proceedings for a whole afternoon without speaking more than 500 words. Last week, however, it soon became apparent that Senator Long was going to get no assistance or relief from other Senators, was in fact going to be held strictly to the rules. He could yield only for a question and if nobody asked him any he would have to keep on talking to hold the floor. The Senate was plainly sick & tired of the Kingfish's tactics...
...nowhere. No Senator rose to help his filibuster. The Shriners were beginning to go out to dinner. Shortly after 5 o'clock Oklahoma's Senator Thomas made the point of no quorum. While the roll was being called Huey Long slipped out of the Chamber for brief relief. When he came back he asked for an opportunity to retire gracefully: "Mr. President, I am not anxious to proceed too long. If we can get a unanimous-consent agreement to vote by noon tomorrow on the motion I have made I shall have no objection to voting at that...
...year-old Jimmy Braddock had, after successive defeats, toppled completely out of the prize ring. He worked briefly as a janitor. He made a pittance as a stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed his name to No. 2796 on the North Bergen (N. J.) relief rolls last year. By unexpectedly knocking out a respectable opponent in a preliminary to the fight in which Max Baer knocked out ponderous Primo Camera and took the heavyweight championship (TIME, June 25, 1934), Jimmy Braddock managed to get back into his old profession. And by an equally unforeseen victory...