Word: reliefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senate, with Huey Long absent in Louisiana, passed (68-to-16) the $4,800,000,000 work relief bill, sent it back to the House...
...blacks work as "red caps," as cooks, butlers or elevator boys. But the dominant whites have pre-empted most available jobs since Depression with the result that of the city's 250,000 Negroes, less than 15,000 work regularly. More than 100,000 are now on relief...
...detachment's job was to set up one of an international chain of circumpolar stations for scientific observation. For two years the party collected data and specimens, sent out exploring expeditions of which one set a new "farthest North" by getting within 450 mi. of the Pole. A relief ship which the War Department had promised to send in the summer of 1882 failed to arrive. Next summer the relief ship cracked up in the ice, sank. Acting on his original orders, Lieut. Adolphus Washington Greely then led his party down the coast of Ellesmere Island from Lady Franklin...
Washington, March 25--A determined band of Silverites and Liberals tonight served notice that they would make every effort tomorrow to defeat a House rule which would send the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill back to conference for elimination of amendments objectionable to President Roosevelt...
Washington, March 24--A thousand "relief pioneers" now receiving government aid will go to new Alaska homes this summer on an Arctic frontier...