Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regalia running into Pennsylvania Avenue. ¶ "If anybody asks you to discriminate because of politics you can tell them that the President of the United States gave direct orders that there is not to be any such discrimination," said the President of the United States to 48 state work-relief directors meeting in Washington this week...
...year-old Harmon Waley a proper contempt for U. S. courts and prisons. It was soon discovered that the Waleys had spent a penniless year in Camden, N. J., boasted that they were "going to do something that would fix us for life," moved to Salt Lake on relief funds last January...
During 1932-33, he served as Minnesota Relief Administrator and was a staff member of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, 1914-16; Director of Personnel Investigations for Massachusetts, 1916-17; and a staff member of the New York State Reconstruction Commission...
...first New Deal agencies was Home Owners' Loan Corp., formed to furnish urban mortgage relief by issuing its bonds in exchange for distress mortgages. Under John H. Fahey, a New England publisher, banker and shipbuilder, HOLC has lifted almost one-fifth of the U. S. home-mortgage burden, has brought relief to 862,000 small homeowners. Last November, with $2,000,000,000 of its $3,000,000,000 capitalization already dispersed and 400,000 cases pending to use up the rest, HOLC suspended all applications for loans. By March, 30% of HOLC's debtors were...
Born in Alabama, but not superstitious, Jesse Owens is the son of a onetime cotton picker, now unemployed, who lives in Cleveland with his wife and eight other children. Total income of the Owens family is estimated at $7 a week. When Mrs. Owens applied for relief, she was refused on the ground that the family had enough money to send a son to college. At Ohio State, her son helps earn his way as a State House page. Christened James Cleveland Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom...