Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio express train had whipped into a school bus, scattered the corpses of 14 youngsters over 200 yards of right-of-way (see p. 32). That news provided him with a jumping-off spot for a new task: the job of "personally" spending $4,880,000,000 on work relief. Same day he announced that $200,000,000 would be spent in eliminating grade crossings on main-line tracks...
...announcement disposed of less than 5% of his spending job. He had already indicated he would spend $600,000,000 on CCC, doubling the size of the Conservation Corps. And Administrator Harry Hopkins took over $113,000,000 for April relief (of which Georgia was assigned none and Pennsylvania only a half share because both States failed to contribute on a scale that Mr. Hopkins thought was fair). That left the President with an embarrassment amounting to not quite...
Unbeaten in his two previous starts against Villanova and Pennsylvania, Bill Lincoln will start on the slab in the Princeton encounter, according to Coach Mitchell's present plans. Tom Bilodeau is slated for first base in both games, but should he be called upon for relief work on the mound, Braman Gibbs will come in from the outfield to hold down the initial sack. Coach Jefferies of the Tiger outfit will probably pitch his Sophomore star, Dick Bell, against the Crimson...
...Discuss the advantages and dangers of federal grants-in-aid, in their various forms, as devices for securing greater central control over state and local policy administration. Specifically, how has the Roosevelt relief program made use of this principle...
...clubs were packed. At least seven Broadway dramas had played to full houses for a week or more. At the swankest cocktail bars in the town, L'Aiglon and the Book Cadillac, waiters got little sleep. Clerks and salaried workers grumbled as rents and food prices went up. Relief rolls had shrunk so low it was hard to find labor enough to finish public projects already started...